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		<title>Mysticism:  Peril or Promise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Demarest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Satiated with consumerism, technological gizmos, and frenetic activity, people of all stripes are exploring the mystical realm. We all resonate with moments of elevated wonder triggered by a beautiful sunset, rapturous music, or the birth of a baby. In a depersonalized age, image bearers are searching for relationship with something or Someone larger than themselves that will ease the dullness of daily life and energize the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Mystical Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tilden Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From where inside are you reading these words right now? If you are reading from your thinking mind alone, then what you see will be run through the sieve of your mind’s refl ective categories and conditioning. What you see will also be affected by the mind’s “ego coating,” its often unconscious way of skewing the words’ meanings to fi t its protective desire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Twice Dumb Ox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas is a man of mystery. Born into a wealthy, powerful family he chose the simple life of a poor friar. He was a large lumbering man whose classmates labeled “the dumb ox.” Yet he proved himself quick of wit and the possessor of a brilliance so rare that his voice has been heard “bellowing across the ages.” Even so, I’m not sure his contributions would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mysticism, Awareness of God, and Postmodern Confusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Moreland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge—not faith, mere true belief, or one’s tradition—is what gives people the right to act and teach responsibly and with authority. We give dentists, not accountants, the right to fix our teeth because we take them to have the relevant knowledge. We receive the ideas of Willard, Foster, and Nouwen because we take them to know what they are talking about. When contributors to this journal share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Exercise in Faith: How Hospitality Invites Us To Believe God More Deeply</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Peterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hospitality has fallen into hard times these days. Worse yet, the commercial world has picked up the word and used it for its own ends—such as the phrase “hospitality industry,” which refers primarily to hotels and convention centers. There’s nothing wrong with commerce—that is, we need thriving businesses for our economic growth. But Christian hospitality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Empty Square Day: Further Reflections of Rublev’s Icon of the Trinity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday. The small square on the calendar is empty. No appointments. No job site meeting with my client and the architect. No phone calls to make. No need to leave the house. Empty square days are the days when I can sit in the black leather armchair in the living room for as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O Taste and See: A Meditation on Rublev’s Icon of the Trinity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One cannot think of Andrei Rublev, the Orthodox monk who at the turn of the fifteenth century produced this icon near Muscovy, the precursor to modern-day Moscow, without also thinking of his spiritual abba and mentor Sergius of Radonezh. Their stories are as entwined as that of a boy and his father. With this in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Community of Friends and Strangers: Encountering Christ Together on the Road of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Haley Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I admit it. I am not very good at welcoming strangers. I am sure this is due, in part, to my introverted nature and the fact that my relational world is already very full. Truth be told, on most days I just don’t feel the need for more relationships and would rather stick with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming Moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Hagberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During each Christmas season, God assigns me a role in the nativity scene so I can focus on something besides painful memories that can derail me at the holidays. A couple of years ago, God assigned me the role of the innkeeper. In that innkeeper role, I became the midwife for Jesus’s birth—and also a midwife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inviting Others In</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Bunch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in a time of crisis, Andy and Phyllis opened their home to my infant son and me. Andy is my long-time supervisor at work, and he and Phyllis have taken in so many people in various transitions that we joke that it is a rite of passage to live in their home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misnaming Our Neighbors: Power, Justice and What Our Assumptions Mean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Labberton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naming is deeper than labeling. It includes the labels we give to things and people, but it is primarily a matter of the heart. Names are given in the heart and then embodied in words and actions. Names are first and foremost expressions of relationship. Embedded in our words and actions are the names we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitality: A Spiritual Discipline, A Spiritual Mission</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rachael Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My childhood home was a row house (what we would now call a townhome) with seven people—five children and two parents—with five bedrooms and one bathroom. Our living quarters were full. One would not expect such an already crowded home to welcome guests, and certainly not overnight visitors. But it did. Maybe it was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the Stranger</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I liked the idea better when it was only talked about in the leadership meeting. Putting it into action was difficult. That idea, the “three-minute guideline,” suggested that in the last three minutes before the church service began and in the first three minutes after it ended, leaders would greet only people we didn’t know. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching In, Reaching Out: Henri Nouwen’s Practical Insights for Humble Hospitality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wil Hernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henri Nouwen remains one of the most prolific and insightful writers when it comes to spirituality and ministry. In this combined field, the recurring theme of hospitality stands out as a key focus in a number of his works. Much has been written on the topic of hospitality and how it figures within the broad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the Stranger &amp; Welcoming the Lord</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christianity is more than a way of thinking; it is way of worship and a way of life. Christianity derived patterns of thinking, worshipping, and living through sustained reflection on scripture. In the patristic era ethics, spirituality and theology were grounded in biblical interpretation. Consequently, the best method to explore the spiritual and theological implications [...]]]></description>
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