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		<title>The PAPA Prayer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I’ve been a Christian, I’ve asked God for lots of things He hasn’t given. There have been times I’ve begged God for clear guidance on how to handle messy relationships or on what direction to move in a confusing situation, and it never came. I could name a dozen nasty spots in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Trinitarian Understanding of Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Nietzsche once wrote, “To grow wise, you must listen to the wild dogs barking in the cellar.” I’m no Nietzschean scholar, but I don’t think he was talking about the wild dogs of depravity. The evil beasts he had in mind, I’m guessing, were what he thought to be the “givens” of existence: death, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Trinitarian Understanding of Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crabb engages us immediately with Nietzsche’s statement, “To grow wise, you must listen to the wild dogs barking in the cellar.” For Nietzsche, this meant the recognition of the desires that cry out from deep within us—the desires of purpose, immortality, and freedom, among others. The truth is that the world doesn’t offer us what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Narrow Mindedness: Good or Bad?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conversations is dedicated to hearing from diverse voices united by a common goal. It&#8217;s our privilege to set the table, pour the coffee, and welcome into the dialogue everyone who wants to become more like Jesus. We&#8217;re drawn together by our shared longing to experience Christian spiritual formation. But that longing, the goal that unites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Strange Spots” Hermeneutics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am again in the middle of a strange spot. That means, of course, only that something has slowed me down enough to see where I am. I’m always in a strange spot. How else could it be? I’m not home. If my soul felt comfortable in this world, it would be evidence of spiritual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Day of Silence and Solitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t want to write this article. My inner world is too noisy. I depend on my distractions too much. How could I write about silence and solitude when I know so little about either? Then the Spirit spoke: “Spend a day with us, alone and quiet, and journal what happens. Let that be your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Direction: Entering the Battle That’s Already Been Won</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 1985, 7,000 therapists gathered in Phoenix, Arizona, to hear more than twenty of the leading theorists and practitioners of psychotherapy in the world come together in a serious attempt at dialogue, clarity, and crossfertilization. Recognized experts such as Bruno Bettelheim, Carl Rogers, Virginia Satir, and Aaron Beck represented fourteen of the more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Direction: Entering the Battle That’s Already Been Won</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crabb humbly confesses his own hunger for God and longing to know him better. He reminds us that no one “graduates” or “arrives” in this life. We graduate in the next life. Nor does spiritual direction cause us to arrive. It brings us hope, a foretaste of what we will experience in the next life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retreat: What? How? Why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A question from an eleven year-old girl triggered the mini-existential crisis that supplied the energy to write this essay. A long forgotten memory retrieved during a day-and-a half retreat helped focus the direction of this essay. &#160; And a recently devoured book, one that requires stronger teeth than mine to chew properly, suggested the content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Difficult Story of Displayed Glory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My many-months-ago agreed upon assignment was to write an article that fit in with the theme of this issue of Conversations, the problem of pain. As one member of the editorial team put it, I have the reputation of being “so open about what God teaches [me] on [my] personal journey of pain.” It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rehearing the Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m rediscovering an old conviction. What I’ve believed for a long time is coming alive with fresh passion; it’s stirring a low-burning flame into a healthy fire. Paul told Timothy to “continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of…” (2 Tim. 3: 14; italics added). I’ve been continuing, at times unsteadily, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Letter Sixty-Two: 1 John</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father, it happened again earlier this morning. Driving to my favorite coffee shop, I suddenly began talking out loud about Your love. Tears started rolling down my face, and I sang, “Jesus loves me, this I know,” over and over again. I couldn’t stop crying, and I couldn’t stop singing. Father, what’s happening to me? [...]]]></description>
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