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		<title>Conversations Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Engelmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conversations Guide By Kim Engelmann Welcoming The Stranger: Living Out God’s Soul Stretching Love Jan Johnson In this article Jan discusses the importance of welcoming the stranger, and in so doing creating a “home” for them. Jesus himself identified with the stranger in his statement “when I was a stranger you welcomed me”. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Curious Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Collier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us know people who love to hear themselves talk. About themselves. All the time. You would fall over if they ever asked How are you? and then actually sat silently to take in whatever you might say. Authentic curiosity requires us to stop talking, to be patient and quiet, to actually be present. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knock, Knock! Who&#8217;s There?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hospitality is a virtue, a moral as well as theological virtue. It’s an offshoot, one of the many, of charity. It’s elusive; now you see it, now you don’t. It has boundaries, but they aren’t at all clear. We’re fraught with its presence and distraught by its absence&#8230;               [...]]]></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>Conversations Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Engelmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In A World of Pain… What Good Is God? An Interview with Philip Yancey This is an interview with Yancey that grapples with theodicy issues as they are dealt with in his new book, What Good Is God? Yancey was in a recent car accident where he almost died and as he recovered three questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations Guide: Spirituality and the Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Engelmann</dc:creator>
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		<title>Communal Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Doughty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“How can the church become what it is truly meant to be?” I first heard this question from a religion professor while I was in college. In four-plus decades since, I have listened to it more times than I can number. The question varies in expression and often rings more sharply than the query I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations Guide: How We Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Engelmann</dc:creator>
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		<title>God In The Dark: A Review of Gerald May&#8217;s The Dark Night of the Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mindy Caliguire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Mindy, if God takes you to the desert, go to the desert and learn what the desert has to teach you.” I received those unwelcome but perfectly aimed words from a mentor during a particularly difficult season of my life. Unwelcome because I wanted to hear the path out. Out of the desert. Out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tulips And Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after I turned ten years old, my father died from cancer. He told my mother that he wanted to tell me about his impending death himself. On a sunny, fall day he went outside with me. He directed me to use my little shovel and dig up a small area of ground by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening To God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David G. Benner needs no introduction to the readers of Conversations. As a founding editor, David has poured much of himself into creating a space for honest dialogue about transformation. Now living on Vancouver Island and semiretired from all things not fun, David has been sailing in exotic places around the world and working on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognizing Our Condition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“But you don’t want to run ahead of yourself. Begin with love.” –John Cassian Empower us to carry each other’s burdens. It’s a prayer I pray each week, along with the rest of my church family as we stand together on Sunday. I attend a liturgical church, and our communal prayers—for hope, for peace, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations Guide: Contemplation &amp; Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Engelmann</dc:creator>
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		<title>Getting the Elephant Out of the Sanctuary (Short Version)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dallas Willard needs no introduction to the readers of Conversations. After all, he is responsible for the fact that our five sections correspond to his components of the person—and that we try to hear from a representative of each of the six great traditions of Christian faith in each issue. He is also responsible for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arranging Our Lives For Spiritual Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Haley Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember the first time I noticed that some people arrange their lives to see sunsets. It was summertime in the Gulf of Florida when the days were hot and the nights were balmy. During the day, crowds of people were out lying in the sun and playing noisily on the beach, but in the [...]]]></description>
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