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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>An Empty Square Day: Further Reflections of Rublev’s Icon of the Trinity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday. The small square on the calendar is empty. No appointments. No job site meeting with my client and the architect. No phone calls to make. No need to leave the house. Empty square days are the days when I can sit in the black leather armchair in the living room for as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O Taste and See: A Meditation on Rublev’s Icon of the Trinity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One cannot think of Andrei Rublev, the Orthodox monk who at the turn of the fifteenth century produced this icon near Muscovy, the precursor to modern-day Moscow, without also thinking of his spiritual abba and mentor Sergius of Radonezh. Their stories are as entwined as that of a boy and his father. With this in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Community of Friends and Strangers: Encountering Christ Together on the Road of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Haley Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I admit it. I am not very good at welcoming strangers. I am sure this is due, in part, to my introverted nature and the fact that my relational world is already very full. Truth be told, on most days I just don’t feel the need for more relationships and would rather stick with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the Stranger &amp; Welcoming the Lord</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christianity is more than a way of thinking; it is way of worship and a way of life. Christianity derived patterns of thinking, worshipping, and living through sustained reflection on scripture. In the patristic era ethics, spirituality and theology were grounded in biblical interpretation. Consequently, the best method to explore the spiritual and theological implications [...]]]></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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		<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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		<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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		<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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