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		<title>Let The Little Children Come</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come To Me&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fil Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“What do you hear from God when you practice lectio with the past year of your life?” That’s the question Conversations Journal’s editor invited me to ponder. My initial reaction was to think: “This is going to call for a good bit of time and effort!” After all, my answer to most “what did you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addicted to Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Stephens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere along my path through undergrad and grad school in psychology, I came to really love B.F. Skinner. I know that there are questionable ethics and perhaps an eschewed moral compass in his history, but his contributions to the science are inescapable in their influence on modern psychological thought. One of his more interesting theories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Beyond the Headlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Meyers Proett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing a blog for Conversations Journal is intimidating. Though I know it is illusion, I have this image of a typical reader to be someone who lives in holy rhythms all day long, a communal lunch perfectly placed between lauds and vespers, silence and service.  My rhythms look a bit more like ventricular fibrillation.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will You Let Me Care For You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a journal keeper. I’m so grateful that our editor at Conversations invited us to use lectio and listen for God regarding our past year. Frankly, I had never considered the idea. Lectio has traditionally four phases: lectio (reading), meditatio (meditation), oratio (prayer), and contemplatio (contemplation or resting). The first phase, lectio is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplative Prayer: More Essential than Esoteric</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary W. Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I was vacationing with my family in Europe when I was slapped in the face by a sentence hiding in a book. We were near the end of our adventure and had worn most of the print off our four Eurail passes. My wife and two daughters were napping, and by reading Huston [...]]]></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>The PAPA Prayer</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/01/the-papa-prayer/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/01/contemplation-and-social-action/</link>
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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>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>Poetry and the Art of Presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Cunningham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a woman from a conservative, southern, Protestant background, I am grateful for the grounding love in which my faith journey was birthed. The foundational gifts within this crucible enabled me to explore my spiritual self in the world without losing the essence of faith, even as the search would eventually lead to avenues of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee and Contemplation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glandion Carney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite definition of contemplation is “the act of viewing steadfastly and attentively—as a piece of art for its own sake.” When we leave an art museum, having contemplated great art, we see life differently. Viewing art steadfastly and attentively affects us. When we contemplate the God of the universe, greater than ourselves and our [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Conversations Journal</dc:creator>
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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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