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		<title>The PAPA Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I’ve been a Christian, I’ve asked God for lots of things He hasn’t given. There have been times I’ve begged God for clear guidance on how to handle messy relationships or on what direction to move in a confusing situation, and it never came. I could name a dozen nasty spots in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplation and Social Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David: I hope I have not embarrassed you by introducing you as Ate Thelma, but hearing you addressed in this way in your culture, I sense that spirituality remains more central to your culture than is true in the secularized West. You have lived in both worlds, completing some of your training in the U.S.A. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Will Be Done, My Kingdom Come</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Basil Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a particular appreciation for Conversations, not only because I am enriched by each issue, but also because I owe so much to one of its originators. David Benner&#8217;s precious trilogy Surrender to Love, The Gift of Being Yourself, and Desiring God&#8217;s Will—has been a great vehicle of grace for me. The first of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Toward God, Pulling Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rich young ruler in Mark&#8217;s Gospel (Mark 10:17–22) came running to Jesus, running to engage him, running to ask his most important questions. No wonder “Jesus looking upon him loved him” (v. 21, RSV). Yet the young man walked sadly away. And Jesus let him go. What is this ambivalence in us that, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Yiu Chen Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that often when we seek direction from the Lord, what we get instead is advice from others—pastors, friends, or counselors. The advice may actually be very good, but it is not what we are seeking and is not what we need. Instead what we long to hear is what Elijah heard—the gentle whisper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Scripture Read You</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Knut Gronvik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Eliezer was the first to speak. “If a man really wants to understand a word in the Scriptures,” he said, “he has to enter into it with his whole being.” “But isn’t it impossible for a grown-up man to enter into a small word?” one of his disciples objected. “I did not speak about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scriptural Meditation: Welcoming God Each Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I’ve been practicing and teaching the familiar styles of Scripture meditation, but it seems that only recently I’ve begun to grasp this basic point: each time I approach the Scripture, I need to deliberately and submissively give God permission to speak to me through those Holy Spirit-breathed words. It’s actually a prayer of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Call of Communal Discernment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Doughty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am intrigued by how often in recent years I have heard the phrase “communal discernment.” I hear it in congregational settings, on retreats, and at regional church gatherings. Sometimes the phrase arises with great hope. A year ago I attended a three-day conference for leaders from ten different Christian denominations. To a person, communal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment:  Deciding With God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It has been decided by the Holy Spirit and by ourselves” (Acts 15:28,29, JB 1). This is how it was put in a letter from the apostles and elders in Jerusalem to settle a controversy at Antioch. This biblical statement affirms the remarkable reality that our decisions can be made conjointly with the Holy Spirit. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining Below the Surface: Discerning the Gift of Presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Harmelink Cepero</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my mother died a year and a half ago, my siblings and I went through her things and found her diaries. She had kept diaries for years and years—those diaries with four lines for each day and three years in one book. All my nieces and nephews, my brother and sisters, looked up their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment Within a Conversational Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The E-mail read, “So which graduate program do you think is best for me?” I winced as I typed out my more-than-sound-bitesize reply: “It depends on what you really want to learn and how you want to learn it. Write that down. Pray and wait. Refine it. Then do some research and line up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Appreciation of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Glen Hinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you knew my background, you would not expect me to write in appreciation of a Trappist monastery. I was born into a family with very little interest in religion and a definite prejudice against anything Roman Catholic. Both my mother and my father had Baptist backgrounds, but my earliest memories of church are of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graced in Silence:  Gifts from a Monastic Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen A. Macchia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there anything more countercultural or counterintuitive than spending a day—or a few days in a monastery? And yet, when I arrive and get settled in my spartan cell, I come to realize how much I actually yearn to be here. Why? Because my culture and my intuition continually pull me in opposite directions, toward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Place along the Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie Loewen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Michael sat quietly, clutching the papers that were a flimsy excuse for yet one more visit to the insurance office in which I worked. We had met several months before, after the heartrending death of his daughter in a car accident in which he had been the driver. I had arranged for a physiotherapist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Formation and the Pastor: A Vision for Shortening the Distance between the Pulpit and the Pew</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen A. Macchia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 8 p.m. on Friday, after a long week of ministry, when our phone rang. Fran, an 87-year old friend from church, had called because she needed a listening ear, some pastoral encouragement, and prayer. Fran is the mother of four grown children, all of whom are facing traumatic health issues, including spinal fusion [...]]]></description>
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