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		<title>Contemplative Prayer Through Back Roads</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Finney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God led me to contemplative prayer through back roads. I became active in church when I was a teenager and a very attractive girl invited me to youth group. God uses all kinds of ways to enlist people in His service! My next step was to be a Volunteer in Mission in the West Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journeying with Julian of Norwich: A Voice from the Anchor-Hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Peasgood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past summer, while awaiting the arrival of our fourth grandchild, I stayed at our son’s house in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. It’s an old house with small bedrooms and limited closet space. My bedroom, the smallest, presented minor living challenges. In the morning, my air mattress was pushed up against the wall to allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK, So What&#8217;s So Amazing About Grace?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Yancey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when two friends talk without a script for three hours about grace, and one of  them is Philip Yancey, arguably today’s premier Christian writer and author of the landmark book What’s So Amazing About Grace? Well, I’ll tell you one thing that happened: we (at least I) forgot that we were chatting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kingdom Is for the Broken: Keeping Church Doors Open for Ragamuffins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This place is different, I thought as I sat for the first time in the bleachers of a high school gymnasium that transformed itself every weekend into Church of the Open Door. The worship session filled me with hope, and David Johnson began to preach from the book of Matthew with passion and authenticity. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anorexia as an Avenue of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christie Pettit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my freshman year in college, I was on top of the world. I was enjoying campus life at the university Thomas  Jefferson built, playing on the tennis team and making good grades. Life was great – until I developed an eating disorder called anorexia athletica. I had heard that many female college athletes struggle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found by Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David: I’m dying to ask you about your training in spiritual direction and hear where your involvement in Ignatian spirituality has taken you in recent years, but perhaps we should start a bit earlier. Since we are going to be talking about your ways of experiencing God, perhaps it will be helpful to put that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes Grace Hurts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Hall Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I heard a story. It went like this: A young girl did something she knew she was not supposed to do, and feared the punishment. Much to her surprise, when she confessed what she had done, she was not punished. “That,” her father said, “is mercy—not getting what you deserve.” Then her father asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Trinitarian Understanding of Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Nietzsche once wrote, “To grow wise, you must listen to the wild dogs barking in the cellar.” I’m no Nietzschean scholar, but I don’t think he was talking about the wild dogs of depravity. The evil beasts he had in mind, I’m guessing, were what he thought to be the “givens” of existence: death, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Now I See: A Theology of Transformation – An Interactive Book Review with Robert Barron</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[together are representatives from the prominent tributaries of Christian spirituality- incarnational, contemplative, evangelical, holiness, charismatic, and social justice. Each is participating in a dialogue, sharing with unusual transparency about authentic transformation and why it seems so difficult actually to become like Jesus. After reading And Now I See: A Theology of Transformation, we couldn&#8217;t wait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: A Post-Modern View of Scripture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian McLaren has become a very important voice in contemporary Christianity—in part, by declaring that modernity has been a noxious pill for the body of Christ. His recent book A New Kind of Christian became a tonic for many who had become soured on the church and religiosity. But it was the following quote from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Strange Spots” Hermeneutics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am again in the middle of a strange spot. That means, of course, only that something has slowed me down enough to see where I am. I’m always in a strange spot. How else could it be? I’m not home. If my soul felt comfortable in this world, it would be evidence of spiritual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Day of Silence and Solitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t want to write this article. My inner world is too noisy. I depend on my distractions too much. How could I write about silence and solitude when I know so little about either? Then the Spirit spoke: “Spend a day with us, alone and quiet, and journal what happens. Let that be your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life with the Brothers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mindy Caliguire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, Gary Moon invited me to contribute to Conversations: Gifts From the Monastery. “Several writers will spend a week-long retreat at monasteries from various traditions; perhaps you could represent the evangelical tradition and visit a Protestant retreat house. See if it would work for you to go,” he urged, “and write an article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Have a Dream and a Hope . . . for the Maturing of the Spiritual Formation Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers of Conversations, In two recent Renovaré publications I shared some of my hopes and dreams for the modern spiritual formation movement. At times I was quite candid—you might even say blunt. But always I was writing from my heart about a vision for the future that I believe God will bring to pass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprised by God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, a woman came to me after I finished teaching a series of writing workshops. She took a deep breath and explained that she had wanted to come to the first workshop, but refrained because she’d attended one I led ten years earlier. She had sensed back then that I was angry with [...]]]></description>
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