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		<title>Contemplative Prayer: More Essential than Esoteric</title>
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		<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>Being With God: The Practice of Contemplative Prayer</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To anyone who knows me even superficially, my writing an article on contemplative prayer might seem ludicrous. By temperament I am far from being a natural contemplative. I am active (often impulsive), restless, and non-reflective. And anyone who knows my spiritual life well knows also that I have always struggled with disciplined prayer, in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Finney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After graduating from high school, James Finley did something unusual. He became a monk. For the next six years, he lived at the Abbey of Gethsemane and learned from one of the great contemporary spiritual figures, Thomas Merton. Now married and the father of two, Finley has built a career as a teacher, clinical psychologist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The PAPA Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<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>Contemplation and Social Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David: I hope I have not embarrassed you by introducing you as Ate Thelma, but hearing you addressed in this way in your culture, I sense that spirituality remains more central to your culture than is true in the secularized West. You have lived in both worlds, completing some of your training in the U.S.A. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplative Prayer Through Back Roads</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Finney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God led me to contemplative prayer through back roads. I became active in church when I was a teenager and a very attractive girl invited me to youth group. God uses all kinds of ways to enlist people in His service! My next step was to be a Volunteer in Mission in the West Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journeying with Julian of Norwich: A Voice from the Anchor-Hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Peasgood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past summer, while awaiting the arrival of our fourth grandchild, I stayed at our son’s house in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. It’s an old house with small bedrooms and limited closet space. My bedroom, the smallest, presented minor living challenges. In the morning, my air mattress was pushed up against the wall to allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry and the Art of Presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Cunningham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a woman from a conservative, southern, Protestant background, I am grateful for the grounding love in which my faith journey was birthed. The foundational gifts within this crucible enabled me to explore my spiritual self in the world without losing the essence of faith, even as the search would eventually lead to avenues of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee and Contemplation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glandion Carney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite definition of contemplation is “the act of viewing steadfastly and attentively—as a piece of art for its own sake.” When we leave an art museum, having contemplated great art, we see life differently. Viewing art steadfastly and attentively affects us. When we contemplate the God of the universe, greater than ourselves and our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praying with Scripture: A Contemplative Way of in Our Spiritual Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spiritual direction is a process by which one person assists another in becoming increasingly aware of the action of the Holy Spirit in one’s life. This “assistance” often involves the simple encouragement to slow down and become more aware of God and his love. With the aid of a director—better known as a traveling companion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplation: No Better Place to Be than with God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a sense God was inviting me up there, inviting me to stop being mad at him. I couldn’t talk about it to anyone. After the sessions, I stayed in the chapel to gaze. I shut my eyes, knowing the window and the trees were there. No words. No tears. When I got home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplation: The Aim of Christian Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term contemplation is derived from the Latin word templum, which referred to a “space in earth or the sky set apart for the sacred examination of animals’ entrails for indications of divine meaning.” Hence the temple became the dwelling place of the gods and the place in which oracles discerned divine meaning and purposes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Meditation on Jan Vermeer’s Christ in the House of Mary and Martha</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Mary . . . was listening to the Lord’s word, seated at His feet.” (Luke 10:39, NASB) In its broadest sense, contemplative prayer is being open to the beauty and power of God- basking in his presence and enjoying his company. No words or thoughts are necessary. It is simply allowing oneself to be totally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being With God: The Practice of Contemplative Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great article, with very helpful distinctions and encouragement for those who don’t  think of themselves as contemplatives—who struggle with prayer—to give the practice of contemplative prayer a try. Benner dispenses with the notion that contemplative prayer is  somehow a more advanced form of prayer. Rather, he contends that contemplative prayer is rudimentary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplation and Social Action: A Conversation With Thelma Galvez Nambu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thelma Galvez Nambu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Contemplation and social action are often seen as two separate camps. In this article, Thelma Nambu shows how her contemplative life informs and is profoundly integrated into her work with women who are survivors of prostitution. Thelma is honored by her fellow Filipinos and addressed as Ate, a title of respect and esteem. In [...]]]></description>
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