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  <title><![CDATA[Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Jesus for the Non-Religious]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying &amp; How a New Faith is Being Born]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Born of a Woman]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Resurrection: Myth or Reality?]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[This Hebrew Lord]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Bishop's Voice : Selected Essays, 1979-1999]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Easter Moment]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Christpower]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Beyond Moralism: A Contemporary View of the Ten Commandments]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dialogue: In Search of Jewish-Christian Understanding]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Honest Prayer]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Consciousness and Survival: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Possibility of Life Beyond Biological Death]]></title>
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  <id>1531991</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Into the Whirlwind: The Future of the Church]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Living Commandments]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Future of the Christian Tradition]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Don Cupitt]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Walter Funk]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[A New Christianity for a New World: January 26, 1788]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Letters of Paul (Riverhead Sacred Text Series)]]></title>
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