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		<title>An Exercise in Faith: How Hospitality Invites Us To Believe God More Deeply</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Peterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hospitality has fallen into hard times these days. Worse yet, the commercial world has picked up the word and used it for its own ends—such as the phrase “hospitality industry,” which refers primarily to hotels and convention centers. There’s nothing wrong with commerce—that is, we need thriving businesses for our economic growth. But Christian hospitality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching In, Reaching Out: Henri Nouwen’s Practical Insights for Humble Hospitality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wil Hernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henri Nouwen remains one of the most prolific and insightful writers when it comes to spirituality and ministry. In this combined field, the recurring theme of hospitality stands out as a key focus in a number of his works. Much has been written on the topic of hospitality and how it figures within the broad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C.S. Lewis and &#8220;the Region of Awe&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Downing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently heard C. S. Lewis described as “the Lord’s logician.” Indeed, Lewis is widely regarded as the most intellectually forceful voice for Christian faith in the modern era. Whether writing as a scholar, lay theologian, or story teller, he is famous for his commitment to “mere Christianity,” for presenting the basic tenets of faith shared in all places at all times by Christians from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Meditation on Rubens’s Mary Washes Jesus’ Feet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first image that comes to our minds when we think of Christian mystics is that of ascetic believers who set themselves apart and deny the world in order to absorb themselves in God completely. Most of us would readily be reminded of people such as Julian of Norwich, John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, and Therese of Lisieux, to name just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evelyn Underhill: The Path toward Spiritual Maturity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Root</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often enough, when the topic of Christian mysticism is raised, it draws looks of incredulity and suspicion. Some express concern that mysticism of any type smacks of New Age heresies. Unfortunately, these doubts about Christian mysticism reveal an apparent neglect—certainly ignorance—of a subject rich in Christian insight and directly related to spiritual nurture and growth. Much of the material being mined and developed by the RENOVARÉ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praying with Scripture: A Contemplative Way of in Our Spiritual Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spiritual direction is a process by which one person assists another in becoming increasingly aware of the action of the Holy Spirit in one’s life. This “assistance” often involves the simple encouragement to slow down and become more aware of God and his love. With the aid of a director—better known as a traveling companion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplation: No Better Place to Be than with God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a sense God was inviting me up there, inviting me to stop being mad at him. I couldn’t talk about it to anyone. After the sessions, I stayed in the chapel to gaze. I shut my eyes, knowing the window and the trees were there. No words. No tears. When I got home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Disciplines as a Means of Grace – A Conversation Between Richard J. Foster and Dallas Willard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early ’70s, Richard J. Foster began to pastor a small congregation, Woodlake Avenue Church, in Canoga Park, California. One of his Sunday school teachers was a professor at a nearby university. His name was Dallas Willard. Together they began to equip a ragtag bunch of would-be saints—many coming from the counter-culture—and experiment with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiencing the Grace of God and the God of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Siang-Yang Tan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grace. It’s a deep word, loaded with many meanings and experiences. It’s a word that is  intimately and eternally related to God. When I think about grace, it is inevitably linked to the God of grace and the grace of God (e.g., see Ephesians 1:6, 7; 2:8, 9; 1 Peter 5:10). Before relating some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Community of the Broken: Finding Intimacy through Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Hougen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I asked if anyone wanted to read, her hand timidly went up. She had chosen John 8 for her writing assignment—the woman caught in adultery—and focused on the passage&#8217;s details: the condemning crowd, the frightened woman, and Jesus&#8217; question once everyone had dispersed. Then the words turned inward. It was evident the student had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment of Spirits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annemarie Paulin-Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A metaphor that helps me understand the discernment of spirits is that of dance. From the time I could walk until I was in my early twenties, I studied classical ballet for many hours each day. At a certain point in our training, when our own dancing was quite established, we began to work with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Figures in the Fog: Thomas a Kempis on Discernment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding one’s way in the spiritual life is like wandering around in the fog. Sometimes you see figures moving ahead, sometimes you hear people talking behind, but you haven’t a clue where you are. It’s a strange city, and what you need desperately is a guide. Fortunately, in the history of Christian spirituality, there have [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Baab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost every year for ten years I stayed for a few days at a Benedictine monastery for women. During an early visit, one of the sisters told me how special Sundays are at the monastery, and over the years I observed many signs of festivity on Sundays. The sisters wore dressier clothes, the food was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pilgrim Way:  Discovering the Ancient Practice of Pilgrimage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traveling to monasteries throughout the world is a discipline for the sole and the soul. Every pilgrimage I take reminds me that this world is not my final home; I’m just a stranger passing through. Every path I tread, every arch I pass points me to a greater reality, where the God who draws us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nouwen on the Porch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Reimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a quiet moment with deafening implications. I was sitting on the enclosed porch of a 100-year-old home in a farming community near Salinas, California. Outside was a neighborhood park. The only noise was the laughter of children on playground swings and puffs of afternoon breeze off the Pacific. In my lap was Henri [...]]]></description>
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