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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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		<title>Spiritual Direction: Entering the Battle That’s Already Been Won</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Crabb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 1985, 7,000 therapists gathered in Phoenix, Arizona, to hear more than twenty of the leading theorists and practitioners of psychotherapy in the world come together in a serious attempt at dialogue, clarity, and crossfertilization. Recognized experts such as Bruno Bettelheim, Carl Rogers, Virginia Satir, and Aaron Beck represented fourteen of the more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Mountain Top to Mundane Life: The Purpose of Spiritual Retreats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Sittser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last leg of the journey seems to last forever. We drive six miles down a narrow, winding road, sometimes barely wide enough for one car to pass. The banks of snow on either side are so high that we can’t see over them, as if we were driving through a white tunnel. We finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The House of My Invisible Lord</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a Friday in the spring—still cold weather in the Borough of Queens in New York City— when I drove up the long, winding drive to the Jesuit Retreat House on Long Island known as Inisfada. &#160; At the time the property was large and the situation of the retreat house commanding. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment: Where Prayer and Action Meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty-two years ago, I left my home country to spend my life (as it turned out) as a Jesuit missionary in the Philippines. But despite the fact that I am strongly rooted here, my young years in the U.S. still help to define who I am today. One memory and influence from those early years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment: Recognizing and Responding to the Presence of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Haley Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is full of the need to choose. Sometimes the choices are momentous—choosing a marriage partner, entering a vocation, having children. Other choices are not quite as momentous, but they are important, nonetheless, because they give shape to our lives. The pursuit of further education, what church to attend, moving to a new geographical location, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Good is God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Yancey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Yancey In Conversation with Gary W. Moon Philip Yancey is a popular author and speaker known for careful research, keen insight and raw honesty. Not long ago he was driving on a deserted road in New Mexico one Sunday morning when his Ford Explorer hit a patch of black ice. Yancey wrestled with the [...]]]></description>
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