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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>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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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>What Good is God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Yancey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Yancey In Conversation with Gary W. Moon Philip Yancey is a popular author and speaker known for careful research, keen insight and raw honesty. Not long ago he was driving on a deserted road in New Mexico one Sunday morning when his Ford Explorer hit a patch of black ice. Yancey wrestled with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job&#8217;s Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry A. Gladson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the darkening, rainy night of April 29, 2011, as people huddled in basements and closets, a powerful, churning EF-4 tornado, with 175-mile-per-hour winds bore down on the small northwestern Georgia town of Ringgold. At about 8:30 p.m., it angrily smashed the McDonald’s and BP service center, flattened a three-story Super 8 motel, and turned [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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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>The Beauty of a Cracked Vessel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last 10 years of my journey have been challenging— physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I grew up strong and active without much sickness, but recently I have experienced several illnesses that have been painful and limiting. In 1995, a major heart artery dissected after an angioplasty. In 1999, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like a Roaring Lion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Realities reside in our universe that go far beyond what we can see and touch and smell. There are immense spiritual realities. God, of course. And angels, God’s messengers. The Bible is actually a book full of angels. Please, I do not mean fluffy white beings with flowing robes and feathered wings. Nor do I mean the childlike nudes of Raphael or, even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Painlessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buchanan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t like visiting the doctor. It’s nothing personal. My doctor is skillful and knowledgeable. And he’s a terrific conversationalist. He teems with insight. He brims with curiosity. He’s a compendium of knowledge on a wide range of topics. Religion, economics, food, motorcycles, great places to travel—all and more is up for grabs as he pokes and prods my undersides, stares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A God Who Weeps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One  reason Rebecca found trusting God so difficult was that Christians had tried to move her out of grieving by saying, “But you have another child,” and “God wanted your son in heaven,” and even, “God thinks you’re strong enough to handle this.” She said to me, “I don’t think I like their god.” She was not so much angry as she was confused. We [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week after I turned 50 years old, I encountered those elephants. I had a heart attack. At the emergency room, I was quickly hooked up to an IV, an EKG machine, and an oxygen mask. The cardiac nurse asked what my pain level was. “Nine!” I gasped. Amid much commotion I looked over my oxygen mask at faces glancing back and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Painful Moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thibodeaux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I have trouble feeling God’s presence in my life. There are painful, difficult periods that our Jesuit founder Ignatius Loyola sometimes referred to as “desolation.” This understanding of the cycle, or mood-swings, of the human heart is not a novel idea. It’s part of the ancient wisdom we Jesuits call “the Ignatian way.” One important factor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Transforming Thorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day chronic pain entered my life has now taken an unwelcome and unwanted place in my memory alongside happiest day: my wedding day, and the birthdays of my children. The 24 hours before it came would be the last pain-free day of my (basically) comfortable 45 years and the beginning of a new life for me. A violent trespasser, its tortuous presence inhabiting my body, would always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering Into Wisdom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ken Boa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[François Fénelon was a 17th century French Catholic priest who wrote and taught what has been termed “Semi-Quietism,” a modified and less radical version of the original Quietism movement. Yet he, along with his friend Madame Guyon, stirred up significant theological controversy by promoting their unorthodox views. Fénelon’s theological position eventually cost him much personally. He was a man who grew to understand suffering, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Promise of Pain</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ruth Haley Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time real pain comes into our lives in such a way that it challenges our strong, well-articulated faith structures, it’s quite traumatic for the responsible Christian—in large part because it is so unexpected. Up to this point in the spiritual life, we have felt somewhat in control and certain of so many things—our doctrines [...]]]></description>
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