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		<title>Welcoming Moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Hagberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During each Christmas season, God assigns me a role in the nativity scene so I can focus on something besides painful memories that can derail me at the holidays. A couple of years ago, God assigned me the role of the innkeeper. In that innkeeper role, I became the midwife for Jesus’s birth—and also a midwife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a Badly Dressed Mystic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I join this conversation about mysticism, I think it best to confess, at the outset, a certain awkwardness. Adding my voice to a discussion on this topic generates within me an emotion similar to what I imagine a guest at a formal dinner party might feel if he arrived wearing torn jeans and a badly stained shirt. Other contributors are better equipped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Way of the Mystics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After performing at the Ozark Mountain Folk Fair in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in 1973 John Michael Talbot began to reconsider his life. What seems so remarkable about this was his age—nineteen—and the fact that most would say he was on top of the world. After all, he and his brother, Terry Talbot, were the heart of a country-rock group known as Mason Proffit, which had fronted for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Night Watch: Mystical Practice for Everyday Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Grizzle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mystics have ears and hearts turned to another world, that of the Divine.  Amidst my busy modern life, I&#8217;ve tried to keep turning and tuning my heart to God.  However, one practice that the Holy Spirit quickened off the pages of a book fifteen years ago changed my spiritual life forever:  the night watch. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystical Transformation of Heart and Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his 2006 book by Paulist Press, Transforming Heart and Mind: Learning from the Mystics, Peter N. Borys, Jr., shows that he is not afraid of tackling an ambitious project. He sets as his goal the synthesis of the most important insights from the history of Christian mysticism and the integration of this with Roman Catholic theology and select aspects of modern psychology. What he accomplishes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Christian Mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fr. Louis Bouyer, the great French scholar of Christian spirituality, suggests that the only true object of Christian mysticism is the Christian mystery. The mystery is “God’s eternal design of saving all things in Christ just as he was to create all things in him.” The mystery is Christ himself, revealed fully in the cross, the ultimate revelation of God’s love for us. Unlike later Western [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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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