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		<title>Welcoming Jesus</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/04/welcoming-jesus-through-welcoming-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fil Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Welcoming the Stranger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a compelling story that Adele Ahlberg Calhoun tells in her Spiritual Disciplines Handbook about an entire French village that risked their lives during World War II extending hospitality by welcoming and sheltering Jews. When a local pastor was asked why the village responded in this way, he replied, “I could not bear to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitten or Thunderstorm?</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/05/kitten-or-thunderstorm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Warner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I think of C.S. Lewis, quotes from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Weight of Glory immediately spring to my mind. These I share with you. The following three quotes speak of the tension we are invited to live in as Christians but often fail to do so, namely, the tension [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m On Aslan&#8217;s Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m on Aslan&#8217;s side even if there isn&#8217;t any Aslan to lead it. I&#8217;m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn&#8217;t any Narnia.&#8221;  — C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)) Recently, I&#8217;ve been thinking about the nature of reality. Not in a deep, theoretical, theological way, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicine from God</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Hess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CS Lewis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite C.S. Lewis’ books are his space trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. In them, the protagonist, a man by the name of Ransom, has a wound that he received in another world. It incapacitates him in this world and cannot be healed on this planet. This idea has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Like Lewis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Simpson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CS Lewis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis was a great scholar of medieval literature but also a man of the twentieth century. The twentieth century was filled with great good in the midst of great evil, and the culture Lewis inhabited needed wise interpreters and reminders of the grand scale of reality envisioned by Christian faith. In that century of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loose in the Fire</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/05/loose-the-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Russell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CS Lewis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I celebrate C.S. Lewis! Yes, I have read several of his books, but I celebrate something else about my connection with him. In 1998 my husband and I traveled to Oxford and Cambridge for the centennial of his birth at the “Loose in the Fire” C.S. Lewis Summer Institute sponsored by the C.S. Lewis Foundation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ups and Downs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Conniry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CS Lewis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversationsjournal.com/?p=5140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the better part of my Christian walk C. S. Lewis has had both a direct and indirect impact on my life. I will never forget the demonology course I took in high school under the stern tutelage of Father Aquinas. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters was one of the required texts. I was fascinated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the Darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Hess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Welcoming the Stranger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welcoming the stranger. I hear that and instantly think of inviting people over, opening the door to angels. Those are good and important things to do. However, as we come through Lent into Easter, a seven week season of rejoicing in Christ’s defeat of the most dreaded stranger ever, death, I have learned that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hospitality of Strangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t particularly promote myself as having the gift of hospitality. Although I am aware, that as believers in Jesus Christ I am expected to live hospitably. I am growing to see that hospitality and the experience of the stranger can arise in any place. My daughter and I had a rare opportunity to visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the Familiar Stranger</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/04/welcoming-the-familiar-stranger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Conniry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welcoming the Stranger]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversationsjournal.com/?p=5048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my best friends is Charlie.  He came into my life about 12 years ago. We had crossed paths on numerous occasions at the local YMCA, but we had never spoken. He walked with extreme difficulty, using a forearm cane. His face was grim, as though locked in a perpetual frown. He seemed like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Presence of a Very Good Person</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/04/the-presence-of-a-very-good-person/</link>
		<comments>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/04/the-presence-of-a-very-good-person/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welcoming the Stranger]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversationsjournal.com/?p=5055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe spiritual disciplines (including welcoming the stranger) are as much caught as taught. Spiritual practices can sort of rub off others onto us. Hence, the presence of a very good person in our lives has an enormous result. I saw this a while ago. As I sat comfortably nestled under a bunch of telephone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journaling to Discover the Stranger</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/04/journaling-to-discover-the-stranger/</link>
		<comments>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/04/journaling-to-discover-the-stranger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Simpson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welcoming the Stranger]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversationsjournal.com/?p=5060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a wise saying by Fr. Hilary Ottensmeyer that goes: “Until you are convinced that prayer is the best use of your time, you will not find time for prayer.” A few years ago, I found myself in a place that was painfully true of Fr. Ottensmeyer’s warning. I was stressed on several fronts—work [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alongside</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/03/alongside/</link>
		<comments>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/03/alongside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisa Fryling Stanford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I leaned into the wall by the patio door, I was only looking for a moment to breathe between breakfast and the day. My daughter, Eden, was born with Down syndrome a year earlier. As difficult as Down syndrome had seemed in the hospital, the reality of Eden’s medical needs was more overwhelming than [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conversations Guide</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/04/conversations-guide-2/</link>
		<comments>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/04/conversations-guide-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Engelmann</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Volume 10.1 Spring/Summer 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversationsjournal.com/?p=5035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Conversations Guide By Kim Engelmann Welcoming The Stranger: Living Out God’s Soul Stretching Love Jan Johnson In this article Jan discusses the importance of welcoming the stranger, and in so doing creating a “home” for them. Jesus himself identified with the stranger in his statement “when I was a stranger you welcomed me”. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection Love</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/03/resurrection-love/</link>
		<comments>http://conversationsjournal.com/2012/03/resurrection-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fil Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversationsjournal.com/?p=4933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope that I’ll never forget a phone call I received several years ago on a Saturday morning. “Fil, this is Eric’s mom. Can you tell me what happened to him? He’s not the same person!” “I’m not certain I know what you’re referring to,” I replied. “Ever since he came home from that camp, [...]]]></description>
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