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	<title>Something Solid</title>
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	<description>by Jesse Mullins, Jr.     &#34;The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.&#34; G. K. Chesterton</description>
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		<title>Social Gospels to the Side</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in an age that has seen dramatic change in how the Christian message is spread. Or, perhaps, in how it is not spread. Many of the biggest stories today, in the news media or in Christian circles, have to do with negatives. We are confronted with “the New Atheism.” We hear disconcerting statistics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessemullins.com/?p=829</link>
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		<title>John R. Erickson: Story Crafter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The creative force behind Hank the Cowdog is more than just a cowboy, rancher, author, publisher, and family man. He is a thinker and a force for good in a world that could use so much more of what he represents. “What we choose to see, hear, and read matters greatly. People need good stories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessemullins.com/?p=909</link>
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		<title>Comments on John R. Erickson from those who know him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[George Clay: On the college student seminars held at the Ericksons’ ranch: “For the second year in a row he held this writing camp. What the college kids want to know is, ‘What is the ABC for being a good writer?’ They want a one-two-three. An outline. And John will just have a smile on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessemullins.com/?p=854</link>
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		<title>Real Ranch, Real Rancher: John R. Erickson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To most who are familiar with the tabletop flatness of much of the Texas panhandle, the ruggedness of the Canadian River Valley would seem a departure. This decidedly un-panhandle-like terrain is home to John and Kris Erickson and their M-Cross Ranch, aka the “Ranch that Hank Built.” Situation some 30 miles outside Perryton, occupying some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessemullins.com/?p=868</link>
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		<title>Inside Hank the Cowdog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John R. Erickson, author of the Hank the Cowdog series, includes among his many talents the ability to take you inside the mind of a dog—which, oddly, is a kinda-bizarre-kinda-sane place to be. And he is a master of the running gag. In each of the stories, there is always some doggy quirkishness going on. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessemullins.com/?p=904</link>
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		<title>John R. Erickson on Popular Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John R. Erickson, in Story Craft: “I am alarmed by the slide of American popular culture toward things that are coarse, ugly, violent, self-directed, obscene, profane, visual, and non-rational, and by a parallel development that we might call the ‘Santa-Clausation’ of culture—the detachment of an event (the birth of Christ) or a creative endeavor (books, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessemullins.com/?p=865</link>
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		<title>It Just Gets Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There you go… you’re in! And I’m glad. Thanks for being an active reader of Something Solid. You’ll find all the same links here that you saw highlighted on the e-newsletter itself. When you clicked on the “Editor’s Notes” link, you were whisked to this website, where all the stories “live.” This particular webpage just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessemullins.com/?p=1029</link>
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		<title>Issue 3 Is in the Bag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tue. night, 8/17/10: Just transmitted Issue 3 of the e-newsletter a couple of hours ago. So happy to have it in circulation. Getting lots of hits on the site right now. If you did not get a copy of the e-newsletter in your email inbox, you can find its contents by clicking here. Would prefer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessemullins.com/?p=1063</link>
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		<title>Only in Texas: Chicken-fried Bacon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s called “chicken-fried bacon.” As someone once described it, “They&#8217;ve taken fat, they&#8217;ve double-coated it in fat, they&#8217;ve fried it in more fat, and then they&#8217;ve served it with a side order of fat.” And, so, when I found this dish on the menu at a restaurant (Catfish Corner) here in my hometown of Abilene, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessemullins.com/?p=832</link>
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		<title>Chicken Fried What??????</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is true that some things can only happen in Texas. I describe one of them in this new article: Only in Texas .]]></description>
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