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		<title>Mysticism:  A Personal Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Fryling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised when I learned that I might be an ordinary mystic.  I didn&#8217;t know mystics could be ordinary. I thought mystics were otherworldly people who probably lived in the desert. My imaginary mystics were extraordinary people who had given up all material pleasures. Since I like indoor plumbing and other creature comforts, I assumed that mysticism was beyond my reach. But I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplative Prayer for Everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Guenther</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As I began to contemplate (verb chosen deliberately) the writing of this article, I did what any alert 21st –century seeker would do: I went online. Sure enough, my article has already been written many times, both tersely and expansively, eloquently and not so eloquently, and almost exclusively under the rubric “Centering Prayer.” As I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding God in All Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have come to believe that God is not far from any of us and that if we are attentive to this fact we will become aware of regular Divine visitations. I like to ask people how they experience the Divine in their lives. Some answer by naming one of the traditional “means of grace”—things [...]]]></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>Discernment and the Experience of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The articles in this issue have presented a number of wonderful ways of understanding and practicing discernment—and reasons why it is important. In this closing page I would like to explore briefly what I consider to be the most important reason discernment is essential if we want our spiritual eyes to be opened and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Personal Gift from the Monastery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My attraction to monastic life began in my mid-twenties, even surviving my marriage – which was the point when I determined that my own calling was definitely not monastic! I still recall the first time I met a monk. While I was in graduate school, a Cistercian monk spoke at a United Church of Canada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unity and Diversity in Spiritual Direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a good friend who turned a fascinating idea into a fine dissertation. Marty Goehring is the friend. He’s a clinical psychologist, but like so many of the therapists I admire, he talks more about the spiritual classics than modern psychology. The interesting idea? Marty was concerned that clients entering professional counseling lasted for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rhythm of Retreat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get out of taking a PE course in college, a young friend of mine enrolled in a ballroom dancing class. This six-football, stocky young man with a shaved head explained to us how it wasn’t so bad, and then he left to buy dancing shoes. We didn’t dare laugh because we saw that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Desperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mindy Caliguire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were to ask a room full of people, as I often have, what instigated the greatest level of transformation in their lives so far, the number one answer is always the same: pain. It comes under varying names, of course: “my divorce,” “my illness,” “losing my job,” “finally hitting rock bottom.” Many different ways of saying the same thing: pain.This last answer has always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting Our Bodies As Living Sacrifices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel B. Clendenin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About fifteen years ago I started reading the fourth-century monastics who fled the corruption of church and society to seek Christ in the solitude of the Egyptian desert. Before I read the desert mothers and fathers, I thought of them as Christian superheroes. After I read them, I realized I couldn’t have been more wrong. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Operating Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it Luke 9:24 (NIV) I have a tendency to oversimplify things. Some people say I’m a compulsive summarizer. So with those two confessions out of the way, I want to—no, I have to—summarize a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Play The Jesus Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And holy obedience must walk in this world, not aloof and preoccupied, but stained with sorrow travail . Thomas R. Kelly The Jesus Way conference was over, and I was relaxing with my wife at a riverside café in San Antonio. Being an introvert who had been awash with waves of people for three days, [...]]]></description>
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