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		<title>Welcome to CGSA!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi folks!<br /><br />Welcome to the CGSA homepage. For details on our meetings and special events this quarter, check out our calendar: <a href="http://osu-cgsa.org/index.php?fuseaction=main.schedule." target="_blank" >http://osu-cgsa.org/index.php?fuseaction=main.schedule.</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fri, 05/27 @ CGSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the end of week 9!  Tomorrow night we&#039;re continuing our spring series on &quot;Hard Questions,&quot; focusing this week on the topic of &quot;Food &amp; Faith&quot;.  Our speaker this week is Rich Hagopian, senior pastor at Smokey Row Brethren Church, which by the way is the church that hosts the food pantry that many of you have served at over the past year.  We&#039;re very glad to have Rich with us--please join us for a great discussion!<br /> <br />After the discussion, we&#039;ll do what seems especially appropriate this week: we&#039;ll head out for dinner together.  To decide where, cast your vote at the Yahoo Dinner Poll.  <br /> <br />When &amp; Where: As usual, we&#039;ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Hale Center, Room 100-F.<br /> <br />Other Announcements: <br /> <br />CGSA Prays: A small group of us has been meeting at 6:00 before the Friday meeting to pray together, and we&#039;ll be doing that again tomorrow night.  Please join us as we spend time in prayer for each other, the campus, the city and beyond.<br /> <br />No CGSA meeting next Friday: Because our end of the year party is happening the day after.<br /> <br />End of the year party: We&#039;ll be having our year-end party on Saturday, June 4 at the Trube&#039;s casa.  The festivities will begin at 2:00, and they will also begin with &quot;C&quot;, because that&#039;s the theme for this year&#039;s party--the letter C.  All of the events will begin with C (consuming food, chatting, chuckling--and other more event-ish things that I can&#039;t think of c-words for at the moment); all of the foods will begin with C (there won&#039;t be hamburger, but there will be cooked meats; there will also be carrots and chips and all sorts of colorful __________s); strategies for winning whatever games there might be will also begin with C (e.g. colluding, cheating); and so on.  It&#039;s going to be just really cool, so make sure you&#039;re there!  <br />]]></description>
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		<title>Fri, 05/18 @ CGSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#039;re continuing our spring series on &quot;Hard Questions,&quot; focusing this week on questions related to gender roles.  Our speaker will be Brenda Colijn, who is both a professor of biblical interpretation and theology at Ashland Theological Seminary and a pastor in the Brethren Church.  She has spoken at CGSA in the past and we are delighted to have her coming back again.  Please join us for a great discussion!<br /> <br />Afterwards, we&#039;ll head out for dinner at a nearby restaurant.  Vote for your choice at the Yahoo Dinner Poll. <br /> <br />When &amp; Where: As is our custom, we&#039;ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Hale Center, Room 100-F.<br /> <br />Other Announcements:<br /> <br />CGSA Prays: A small group of us has been meeting at 6:00 before the Friday meeting to pray together, and we&#039;ll be doing that again tomorrow night.  Please join us as we spend time in prayer for each other, the campus, the city and beyond.<br /> <br />Walk for Economic Empowerment: The Walk is happening this Saturday morning, but it&#039;s not too late to help!  For information about the Walk, check out its facebook page, and if you&#039;d like to contribute to the CGSA fundraising effort, you can do so from here.  All funds raised go to support Invest-Credit&#039;s important micro-finance ministry in Moldova.<br /> ]]></description>
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		<title>Fri, 05/13 @ CGSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week at CGSA we&#039;ll have the next talk in our &quot;Hard Questions&quot; series, focusing on different questions connected to the person and work of the Holy Spirit.  For example, we want to ask things like: What role does the Holy Spirit play in the life of a believer?  How is this Holy Spirit different from one&#039;s conscience?  Do we need the Holy Spirit to make good decisions?  We&#039;re very excited to have Rae Whitlock, an elder at Grace Central Presbyterian Church, joining us to speak on these important questions.  It should be a great discussion, please join us!<br /> <br />Afterwards, we&#039;ll head out for dinner at a nearby restaurant.  Vote for your choice at the Yahoo Dinner Poll.  <br /> <br />When &amp; Where: Everything is back to normal this week--we&#039;ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Hale Center, Room 100-F.<br /> <br />Other Announcements: <br /> <br />CGSA Prays: Join us Friday at 6:00 pm before the meeting to pray together for personal needs, our campus, and the world!  Some people choose to pray aloud, others prefer to pray silently--feel free to pray either way.  Don&#039;t miss it!<br /> <br />Walk for Economic Empowerment: Just a couple weeks left before the Walk!  We&#039;re still looking for walkers and still trying to raise more money to support Invest-Credit&#039;s important micro-finance ministry in Moldova.  Kim Orleans is captaining the CGSA team, so feel free to talk to her for more information, and you can also find details on the Walk&#039;s facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#" target="_blank" >http://www.facebook.com/#</a>!/W4EEColumbus.<br />That&#039;s all for now, friends, hope to see you tomorrow!<br />]]></description>
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		<title>Fri, 05/06 @ CGSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week at CGSA we&#039;re delighted to have Pastor Greg Blosser joining us to give the next talk in our &quot;Hard Questions&quot; series.  Greg is currently the pastor at Grace Central Presbyterian Church in the Short North, and he&#039;ll be speaking to us on the theme of sexuality.  In particular, we&#039;ll be thinking about questions related to the meaning and expression of sexuality, particularly before marriage: for example, why did God make us sexual? How does He mean for us to express that? Big questions for sure, should make for great discussion.  Please join us!<br /> <br />Afterwards, we&#039;ll head out for dinner at a nearby restaurant.  Vote for your choice at the Yahoo Dinner Poll.  <br /> <br /><b>Location Change</b>: This week we&#039;ll be meeting in a different room at the Hale Center--Room 145.  When you walk in the front doors, take a left down the gallery hallway instead of walking to our normal room through the large auditorium space.  When you get to the big statue, turn left and proceed down the hallway.  At the end of the hallway you will make another left and room 145 should be there.  (Even though the location is changing, we&#039;ll still start at 6:30 pm.)<br /> <br />Other Announcements: <br /> <br />CGSA Prays: Join us Friday at 6:00 pm before the meeting to pray together for personal needs, our campus, and the world!  Some people choose to pray aloud, others prefer to pray silently--feel free to pray either way.  Don&#039;t miss it!<br /> <br />Walk for Economic Empowerment: The Walk is coming up later this month (!), so it&#039;s time to get involved.  There is still a need for walkers, help with fundraising and more, so if you can help at all, there&#039;s a place for you!  All the money we raise goes directly to Invest-Credit&#039;s micro-finance work in Moldova, and the loans that the organization gives out really do have a positive impact on people&#039;s lives.  Kim Orleans is captaining the CGSA team, so feel free to talk to her for more information, and you can also find details on the Walk&#039;s facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#" target="_blank" >http://www.facebook.com/#</a>!/W4EEColumbus.<br />]]></description>
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		<title>Fri, 04/29 @ CGSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week at CGSA we&#039;re delighted to have Pastor Jack Watson joining us to give the next talk in our &quot;Hard Questions&quot; series.  Pastor Watson was for many years the pastor at Bethel Presbyterian Church, and he has spoken at CGSA multiple times in the past.  We&#039;re so glad he keeps agreeing to come back!  This time he&#039;ll be talking about questions related to how the Bible was put together.  For example, we might wonder why some books were chosen for inclusion in the canon while other books were excluded.  How were these decisions made?  Were they based on theology, or were decisions driven more by church politics?  And why do Catholic and Orthodox Christians get a bigger Bible than Protestants? (!)  It should be a great discussion, please join us!<br /> <br />Afterwards, we&#039;ll head out for dinner at a nearby restaurant.  Vote for your choice at the Yahoo Dinner Poll.  <br /> <br />When &amp; Where: As usual, we&#039;ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Hale Center, Room 100-F.<br /> <br />Other Announcements: <br /> <br />CGSA Prays: Join us Friday at 6:00 pm before the meeting to pray together for personal needs, our campus, and the world!  Some people choose to pray aloud, others prefer to pray silently--feel free to pray either way.  Don&#039;t miss it!<br /> <br />Walk for Economic Empowerment: The Walk is coming up in May, so it&#039;s time to start thinking about how to get involved.  We&#039;re looking for walkers, help with fundraising and more, so if you can help at all, there&#039;s a place for you!  Kim Orleans is captaining the CGSA team, so feel free to talk to her for more information, and you can also find details on the Walk&#039;s facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#" target="_blank" >http://www.facebook.com/#</a>!/W4EEColumbus.<br /> <br />National Day of Prayer: May 5 is the National Day of Prayer, and there&#039;s an event going on at the Hale Center from 11:30 - 1:15 pm.  The Hughes Hall Christian Fellowship is hosting a talk by Dr. Roger Blackwell, and light lunch will be provided until noon.  Check it out if you&#039;re interested!<br />]]></description>
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		<title>Fri, 04/15, Conversation &amp; Cuisine @ CGSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#039;re in for a treat at CGSA this week, in more ways than one!  One treat is having Dr. Loren Haarsma, physics professor at Calvin College, join us to talk about the question, &quot;Are science and faith at war?&quot;  Dr. Haarsma speaks and writes frequently on questions relating to faith and science, and we&#039;re very excited to have him with us this week.  The other treat is that this week&#039;s meeting will be in Conversation &amp; Cuisine style, which means that we&#039;ll be having our discussion of faith and science at least partly over dinner together.  We&#039;ll do dinner potluck-style, and there&#039;s always more than enough delicious food to go around.  And of course, if you have friends or colleagues who might be interested in the discussion (and dinner!), please invite them to join us!  <br /> <br />When &amp; Where: As usual, we&#039;ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Hale Center, Room 100-F.<br /> <br />Other Announcements: <br /> <br />CGSA Prays: Join us Friday at 6:00 pm before the meeting to pray together for personal needs, our campus, and the world!  Some people choose to pray aloud, others prefer to pray silently--feel free to pray either way.  Don&#039;t miss it!<br /> <br />Walk for Economic Empowerment: The Walk is coming up next month already, so it&#039;s time to start thinking about how to get involved.  Kim Orleans is captaining the CGSA contingent, so feel free to talk to her for more information, and you can also find details on the Walk&#039;s facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#" target="_blank" >http://www.facebook.com/#</a>!/W4EEColumbus.<br />]]></description>
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		<title>Fri, 04/08 @ CGSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, politics is one of the topics that you&#039;re not supposed to talk about in polite company.  We&#039;re going to break that rule Friday night at CGSA.  Sort of, anyway.  Adam Long and Beth Kavanaugh, the lead pastor and outreach director, respectively, at Continuum Church here in Columbus, will be joining us to talk about how it is that Christians who read the same Bible can disagree so deeply and widely about politics.  Definitely appropriate for a series on hard questions!<br /> <br />After the discussion, we&#039;ll head out to a nearby restaurant, to be chosen by you at the Yahoo dinner poll.<br /> <br />When &amp; Where: As usual, we&#039;ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Hale Center, Room 100-F.<br /> <br />Other Announcements:<br /> <br />CGSA Prays: Join us Friday at 6:00 pm before the regular meeting to pray together for personal needs, our campus, and the world!  Some people choose to pray aloud, others prefer to pray silently--feel free to pray either way.  Don&#039;t miss it!<br /> <br />&quot;Are science and faith at war?&quot;  Dr. Loren Haarsma, professor in the Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy at Calvin College, will be addressing this question on April 15.  Dr. Haarsma speaks and writes frequently on questions relating to faith and science, and we&#039;re really looking forward to having him join us in a couple weeks.  As with all of our meetings, this talk is open to all, and it would be a great talk to invite friends and colleagues to!  Also, if you are interested in a more informal conversation about faith and science with Dr. Haarsma, please let Bob Trube or me know.  We&#039;d be happy to try to set something up for that Friday afternoon.<br /> <br />Walk for Economic Empowerment: The Walk is coming up next month already--to find out how you can be involved, check out the Walk&#039;s facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#" target="_blank" >http://www.facebook.com/#</a>!/W4EEColumbus]]></description>
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		<title>Fri, 04/01 @ CGSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This quarter we&#039;ll be having a series of discussions focused on a set of questions submitted by members of CGSA.  This Friday we&#039;ll have the first installment in this series--our very own Bob Trube will be responding to the question, What is Heaven like?  Come join us for an exciting discussion!  Afterwards, we&#039;ll head out to dinner at a nearby restaurant, to be chosen by you at the Yahoo Dinner Poll.    <br /> <br />When &amp; Where: As usual, we&#039;ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Hale Center, Room 100-F.<br /> <br />Other Announcements: <br /> <br />CGSA Prays: Join us Friday at 6:00 pm before the regular meeting to pray together for personal needs, our campus, and the world!  Some people choose to pray aloud, others prefer to pray silently--feel free to pray either way.  Don&#039;t miss it!<br /> <br />&quot;Are science and faith at war?&quot;  Dr. Loren Haarsma, professor in the Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy at Calvin College, will be addressing this question on April 15.  Dr. Haarsma speaks and writes frequently on questions relating to faith and science, and we&#039;re really looking forward to having him join us in a few weeks.  As with all of our meetings, this talk is open to all, and it would be a great talk to invite friends and colleagues to!  Also, if you are interested in a more informal conversation about faith and science with Dr. Haarsma, please let Bob Trube or me know.  We&#039;d be happy to try to set something up for that Friday afternoon.<br />]]></description>
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		<title>Fri, 03/11 @ CGSA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, the end is near--this Friday we will have the final installment of our Mark Manuscript study.  Deborah Morton, a grad student in the Linguistics department, will be facilitating our discussion of Mark 8.  It&#039;s certainly a busy time of the quarter, but we really hope you can join us as we continue to find out more about who Jesus is and what he has to teach us!  <br /> <br />After the study, we&#039;ll head out to dinner at a nearby restaurant.  Vote for your choice at the Yahoo Dinner Poll!  <br /> <br />When &amp; Where:  As usual, we will meet at the Hale Cultural Center, Room 100-F at 6:30 pm.  <br /> <br />Other Announcements:<br /><br />CGSA Prays:  Join us at 6pm before the regular meeting for our weekly prayer meeting! Feel free to pray out loud or silently, whichever you prefer. Don&#039;t miss it!<br />]]></description>
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