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		<title>Random</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps our thinking exemplifies a selective system. First lots of random scattered ideas compete for survival. Then comes the selection for what works best—one idea dominates, and this is followed by its amplification. Perhaps the moral…is that you never learn anything unless you are willing to take a risk and tolerate a little randomness in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I love that it&#8217;s trash night because. . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it causes me to go out, feeling lighter from the knowledge of a cleaner house, with a white trash bag slung over my back like Santa, out, leaving my comfy black sofa, out, into the crisp, clear night with a few scattered clouds scudding overhead illuminated by the bright round disc there, the almost full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spinning my silver grocery cart through Kroger yesterday searching after plain frozen spinach and garlic and onions and fresh white mushrooms and tapioca flour and eggplant for my daughter&#8217;s Torta Rustica, gliding past bright red and green poinsettas stacked up in cheerful pyramids, I passed by a person singing along with the Christmas carol playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baby of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I got to spend time with a two-month-young baby. At lunch with her parents, I asked and was handed her like a gift and got to walk around with her to the oohs and aahs of the restaurant owner and servers. Her mother said she likes to bounce, so I did that gentle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther and Mother Buschbeck</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a corner of my desk at Shorter University, I have this old, red New Testament that, because it is small, is easy to carry around. The red color of its hardcover makes me cheerful because it reminds me of Jesus’s kind, welcoming, wise, healing, and transforming words in my very first Bible, which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red, White, and Blue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know about you, but I am weary of all the fighting. More importantly, no jobs are being created while the arguing continues. It’s as if two people are divorcing, and they forget about anyone else in the family and what their bickering is doing to others. In such a scenario, the welfare of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes life is simply beautiful. Recently, I took a plane to Memphis, to do a retreat on Hildegard of Bingen. The spirit of the city enveloped me. Here is my impression of Memphis. She is just my kind of gal, for she is sweet, interesting, self-rich, kindness-prone, well-read, and happy to take you to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Read Christianity Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the July 2011 Christianity Today, its editor-in-chief, Dr. David Neff, asks Bishop Kallistos Ware, “If I were to meet you on a train and ask you, ‘What is the center of the Christian message?,’ how would you succinctly put that?” I liked his reply: I would answer, “I believe in a God who loves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intexticated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week or so ago, the rain woke me up at 4:00 a.m. Usually rain doesn’t wake me up; but this rain was furious, and it unnerved me. Days earlier and day-by-day, I had checked the weather forecast online, and there was nothing but little sun after little sun on each day of that week—it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ununderstandable Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My whole life I have wanted incomprehensible peace. You know—the kind “that passes all understanding.” Paul writes about that in Philippians 4:7: “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” I LOVE that incomprehensible means “there ain’t no way you can understand it.” If [...]]]></description>
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