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		<title>Mysticism:  Peril or Promise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Demarest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Satiated with consumerism, technological gizmos, and frenetic activity, people of all stripes are exploring the mystical realm. We all resonate with moments of elevated wonder triggered by a beautiful sunset, rapturous music, or the birth of a baby. In a depersonalized age, image bearers are searching for relationship with something or Someone larger than themselves that will ease the dullness of daily life and energize the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Mystical Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tilden Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From where inside are you reading these words right now? If you are reading from your thinking mind alone, then what you see will be run through the sieve of your mind’s refl ective categories and conditioning. What you see will also be affected by the mind’s “ego coating,” its often unconscious way of skewing the words’ meanings to fi t its protective desire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mysticism, Awareness of God, and Postmodern Confusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Moreland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge—not faith, mere true belief, or one’s tradition—is what gives people the right to act and teach responsibly and with authority. We give dentists, not accountants, the right to fix our teeth because we take them to have the relevant knowledge. We receive the ideas of Willard, Foster, and Nouwen because we take them to know what they are talking about. When contributors to this journal share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitality: A Spiritual Discipline, A Spiritual Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My childhood home was a row house (what we would now call a townhome) with seven people—five children and two parents—with five bedrooms and one bathroom. Our living quarters were full. One would not expect such an already crowded home to welcome guests, and certainly not overnight visitors. But it did. Maybe it was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the Stranger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I liked the idea better when it was only talked about in the leadership meeting. Putting it into action was difficult. That idea, the “three-minute guideline,” suggested that in the last three minutes before the church service began and in the first three minutes after it ended, leaders would greet only people we didn’t know. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Vision of the Redeemed Life: Transformation Trumps Information In Welcoming the Stranger Back Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Ortberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2008 American Religious Affiliation Survey made headlines (and the cover of Newsweek) with the announcement that the single fastest-growing category of American religious life is “no affiliation.” In less than twenty years, the percentage of people who listed “none” as their faith identity nearly doubled, from 8% to 15%.  This category has grown so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being With God: The Practice of Contemplative Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Benner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To anyone who knows me even superficially, my writing an article on contemplative prayer might seem ludicrous. By temperament I am far from being a natural contemplative. I am active (often impulsive), restless, and non-reflective. And anyone who knows my spiritual life well knows also that I have always struggled with disciplined prayer, in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Finney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After graduating from high school, James Finley did something unusual. He became a monk. For the next six years, he lived at the Abbey of Gethsemane and learned from one of the great contemporary spiritual figures, Thomas Merton. Now married and the father of two, Finley has built a career as a teacher, clinical psychologist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace for Transformation: A Gem with Many Facets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Boa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mysterious triunity of God is the ontological foundation for unity and diversity, mutual communication, and loving interpersonal communion. As God’s image bearers, we are fundamentally relational beings who were created for the summum bonum of an intimate relationship with the living and personal Lord of all visible and invisible things. No other person, possession, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming Wisdom: A Gracious Reversal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Demarest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekly bulletin of our Evangelical Presbyterian church indicated that a three-person renewal team from the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver would begin an eight-week education course the following Sunday. When my wife, Elsie, suggested that we attend this unexpected class offering together, I demurred, responding that as an evangelical seminary professor, I was uncomfortable with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Sin Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McMinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague sitting next to me offered me a stick of chewing gum during a Wheaton College chapel service. Maybe she was just being kind, or maybe she was trying to tell me my breath needed some help on that particular day. Either way, the gum looked good. Still, I turned down the offer. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Soul Unplugged from the Energy of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>F. Gregory Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  While driving around my hometown during recent weeks, I have noticed the presence of a few unusual yard signs. Instead of the typical political messages, these signs portray a facsimile of two tablets of stone on which are written the Ten Commandments. Most likely, those who put up the signs are conveying their thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Words: An Invitation to Solitude and Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Haley Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the truth be told, it was desperation that first drew me into solitude and silence. I wish I could say it was for loftier reasons—pure desire for God or some such thing. But in the beginning it was desperation, plain and simple. There were things that needed fixing in my life, longings that were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living a Little Rule of Life: Pilgrimage to a Motherhouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne McLoughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the privilege of going on pilgrimage to France to visit the places holy to the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph. Our first stop was in Annecy, where we stayed in the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph. Originally this convent had belonged to the Sisters of the Visitation, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening One’s Heart to Another: The Rediscovery of Spiritual Direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Ruffing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sufi poet Hafiz offers this tiny, remarkable poem, “It Felt Love,” about spiritual opening to God and unfolding in that love. It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being. Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened. &#160; In both Islam and Christianity, the rose is a symbol of both romantic and mystical love. When [...]]]></description>
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