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		<title>Contemplative Prayer: More Essential than Esoteric</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I was vacationing with my family in Europe when I was slapped in the face by a sentence hiding in a book. We were near the end of our adventure and had worn most of the print off our four Eurail passes. My wife and two daughters were napping, and by reading Huston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s How the Light Gets In</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Harris is a remarkable man. While serving as a Navy chaplain, he developed an affinity for outcast sailors, finding himself drawn to those who repulsed most others – the abused and the abusers, the afflicted and the addicted, the yellers and the smashers. Hollow, angry eyes were for him a siren call for grace. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Now I See: A Theology of Transformation – An Interactive Book Review with Robert Barron</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[together are representatives from the prominent tributaries of Christian spirituality- incarnational, contemplative, evangelical, holiness, charismatic, and social justice. Each is participating in a dialogue, sharing with unusual transparency about authentic transformation and why it seems so difficult actually to become like Jesus. After reading And Now I See: A Theology of Transformation, we couldn&#8217;t wait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Word of God: Fully Human, Fully Divine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve gotten the question several times:“Do you believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God?” Three occasions burn in my memory. The first occurred during a job interview. It was the final stage. Several faculty members from a conservative seminary in the Midwest had me encircled, peppering me with questions, trying to see if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: A Post-Modern View of Scripture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian McLaren has become a very important voice in contemporary Christianity—in part, by declaring that modernity has been a noxious pill for the body of Christ. His recent book A New Kind of Christian became a tonic for many who had become soured on the church and religiosity. But it was the following quote from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unity and Diversity in Spiritual Direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a good friend who turned a fascinating idea into a fine dissertation. Marty Goehring is the friend. He’s a clinical psychologist, but like so many of the therapists I admire, he talks more about the spiritual classics than modern psychology. The interesting idea? Marty was concerned that clients entering professional counseling lasted for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If God is So Smart, Why Am I Doing All the Talking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past four decades I’ve learned the same foundational truth about discernment from three very different people. One is my Uncle Otis, a semifamous faith-healing evangelist who was Charismatic long before it was cool. The other two are Dallas Willard and Ignatius of Loyola.Uncle Otis was known as a man who lived with an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding God In The Midst of Pain and Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tailor prayed, “Lord, I cheat on pieces of cloth; you let babies die. But I am going to make you a deal. You forgive me my little sins and I’ll forgive you your big ones.” Lew Smedes included that haunting anecdote in his important little book, Forgive and Forget. He uses it to call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding God in the Midst of Pain and Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tailor prayed, “Lord, I cheat on pieces of cloth; you let babies die. But I am going to make you a deal. You forgive me my little sins and I’ll forgive you your big ones.” Lew Smedes included that haunting anecdote in his important little book, Forgive and Forget.  He uses it to call attention to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join in the Conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is deeply important to us that we keep the fact that our journal is meant to be a conversation (hence the name, Conversations) in front of us at all times. We hope to prompt thought, encouragement and conversation with God, with others and with our editorial team. If nothing else, our past issue succeeded in doing just that! We heard from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tennis Anyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a colorful day in May. The sky was bright blue, the tennis courts olive green, and John McEnroe’s hair was wiry red. I was sitting in the stands watching the final match of the NCAA tennis tournament in Athens, Georgia. McEnroe, a freshman playing for Stanford, was giving tennis lessons to his opponent. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirituality and The Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an embarrassment, the body. With all the belching, oozing, pain, and decay, it’s no surprise St. Francis called it “Brother Ass.” And with its unceasing attraction to bacon, beer, and other bodies, it’s enough to make you wonder: What was God thinking? What a marvel, the body. By comparison the most powerful computer is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drinking Coffee As A Spiritual Discipline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Glandion Carney is on my mind today; but not for a good reason. Glandion is in the hospital battling against an infection. My prayers are with this dear brother whose free-floating, free-form prayers have earned him the nickname Theologius Monk. I have a difficult time thinking about Christian disciplines without seeing a picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inviting Us In</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a good friend who has made an interesting observation about the book of Isaiah[1].  Its 66 chapters parallel the 66 books of the Bible in at least one fascinating way. After the first 39 chapters of Isaiah and the first 39 books of the Bible, things dramatically change: In the 40th division of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding A Sanctuary For The Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can’t believe I’m blogging. I haven’t been a fan of the sport. In fact, I’ve enjoyed quoting Mark Twain who once described journalism as “literature in a hurry;” and then quickly adding my belief that “blogging is journalism in a jiffy.” But, as was the case with my take on email, texting, and on-line [...]]]></description>
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