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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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		<title>Paul:  The Model of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theological concept of grace, as it has been received in the West, was profoundly influenced by the writings of Augustine, so much so that he was later referred to as the doctor gratiae. His thought on the subject, built on the earlier transactional language (“accruing merit” and “making satisfaction”) of Tertullian and his intense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Meditation on Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God’s grace comes to us by a variety of means. The church has long taught that the sacraments (baptism and the Eucharist), Scriptures, and preaching are means by which we experience God’s grace. But this list could also be expanded to include the arts, the imagination, nature, friendships, and much more—anything that makes God’s presence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dialogue About Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Yancey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yancey and Crabb talk candidly about the lack of grace in church and in society. They cite a poignant story about how grace operated when Yancey was present in a meeting with top Russian leaders to discuss how to restore morality to the country. It was there that Russian émigré and Christian evangelist Alex Leonovich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginning and Telos of Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian spirituality involves an interpretive conversation between the classics of the Christian tradition and contemporary human experience. It is a two-way dialogue, in which we not only bring a critical eye to the text in order to decide what we think is useful to our present situation, but we also aspire to remain open to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Meditation on Duccio di Buoninsegna’s Washing of the Feet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not much is known of the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255–1319), but his art marked important changes in the painting styles of the period in which he lived. His work brought life, humanity, and new levels of expressiveness to the Byzantine style. Until then, Christian art had been static and austere. Duccio introduced a gentleness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Trinitarian Understanding of Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crabb engages us immediately with Nietzsche’s statement, “To grow wise, you must listen to the wild dogs barking in the cellar.” For Nietzsche, this meant the recognition of the desires that cry out from deep within us—the desires of purpose, immortality, and freedom, among others. The truth is that the world doesn’t offer us what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Discerning of Spirits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first act of discernment by the apostolic community—the choosing of Matthias to replace Judas—occurred after the ascension of Jesus and before the descent of the Spirit at Pentecost. Two questions were problematic for the early Christian writers interpreting Acts 1. First, why didn’t Jesus appoint Matthias before he departed? And second, was the drawing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Meditation on Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often do we find ourselves rushing through our busy lives without even a glance toward God, without noticing that he is right in the middle of it? Sometimes we have no trouble at all seeing God in our lives—times of blessing, order, peace, joy. But it is usually much harder when life becomes disordered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment:  Where Prayer and Action Meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Christians talk about discerning God’s will, but few actually do it. Green tells us that discernment is a practical art, not simply a place where we are meant to get lost in speculation. He takes us through the “who, what, and how” of discernment, defining the “what” of discernment as “discovering in prayer how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment:  Recognizing and Responding to the Presence of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Haley Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In this excellent article, Barton talks about discernment as the practice of recognizing the presence and activity of God. Discernment is a habit, a way of seeing, that moves us from spiritual blindness to spiritual sight. This allows us to develop an “intuitive sense of God’s heart and purpose at any given moment.” When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowledge Born in Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a brother came to visit one of the great desert fathers, Abba Moses, and asked him for a word. Moses replied, “Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.” Moses’ instruction was not unusual. Moses believed that only in the silence of the cell would a monk acquire the virtues [...]]]></description>
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