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		<title>A Twice Dumb Ox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas is a man of mystery. Born into a wealthy, powerful family he chose the simple life of a poor friar. He was a large lumbering man whose classmates labeled “the dumb ox.” Yet he proved himself quick of wit and the possessor of a brilliance so rare that his voice has been heard “bellowing across the ages.” Even so, I’m not sure his contributions would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplative Prayer: More Essential than Esoteric</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I was vacationing with my family in Europe when I was slapped in the face by a sentence hiding in a book. We were near the end of our adventure and had worn most of the print off our four Eurail passes. My wife and two daughters were napping, and by reading Huston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s How the Light Gets In</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Harris is a remarkable man. While serving as a Navy chaplain, he developed an affinity for outcast sailors, finding himself drawn to those who repulsed most others – the abused and the abusers, the afflicted and the addicted, the yellers and the smashers. Hollow, angry eyes were for him a siren call for grace. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Secret Desire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a secret. This is a secret I try to keep not only from others; it is one I try to keep from myself. It’s seriously at odds with how I want others to see me, but it also makes a mockery of how I want to see myself. It is, in reality, tremendously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Word of God: Fully Human, Fully Divine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve gotten the question several times:“Do you believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God?” Three occasions burn in my memory. The first occurred during a job interview. It was the final stage. Several faculty members from a conservative seminary in the Midwest had me encircled, peppering me with questions, trying to see if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gifts of Making Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running home to Mom and Dad . . . Returning to the nest . . .In a culture in which renting rooms is no longer widespread, and relationships lack stability, adult kids are returning home to live with their parents, who have become their economic safety net. But when Mom and Dad are deceased or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tending the Inner Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After eight issues of Conversations on various aspects of the spiritual formation process, it is definitely time to devote an issue to spiritual direction. At one point we considered making this the thrust of the whole journal but decided we didn’t want to confuse a means with the end. But spiritual direction is such an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If God is So Smart, Why Am I Doing All the Talking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past four decades I’ve learned the same foundational truth about discernment from three very different people. One is my Uncle Otis, a semifamous faith-healing evangelist who was Charismatic long before it was cool. The other two are Dallas Willard and Ignatius of Loyola.Uncle Otis was known as a man who lived with an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thin Times and Thin Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Guenther</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love retreats, real retreats! I love their expansiveness and freedom. We need to be cautious in our use of the word, which is increasingly applied to almost any activity that takes us away from our usual surroundings. Marathon off-site business meetings, parish-sponsored family outings, and trips to the beach or ski slopes for the [...]]]></description>
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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>Spirituality and The Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an embarrassment, the body. With all the belching, oozing, pain, and decay, it’s no surprise St. Francis called it “Brother Ass.” And with its unceasing attraction to bacon, beer, and other bodies, it’s enough to make you wonder: What was God thinking? What a marvel, the body. By comparison the most powerful computer is [...]]]></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>Front Page: The Elephant In The Sanctuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After seven years of producing Conversations: A Forum for Authentic Transformation, the editors felt it was past time to devote an issue to, well, transformation. Even after a couple of decades in the limelight, this topic remains relevant and controversial. Just yesterday I was sitting with a friend at a restaurant talking about everything from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Following, The Jesus Way: An Introduction to this Issue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Verbicide,” C. S. Lewis writes in his excellent collection of lectures called Studies in Words, “the murder of a word, happens in many ways.” Lewis goes on to explain that there are a few more common ways that words are murdered: inflation (using “sadism” for “cruelty,” as an example) or verbiage (using a word in [...]]]></description>
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