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		<title>Can the Church Really Show Christ&#8217;s Love If&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read the past few entries in this blog, you may know that I am in a bit of a transition church-wise.  My home church is a wonderful, caring, giving, living group.  However, I find a lack of peers of which I can truly relate to.
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		<title>Not Alone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I learned that I do not control the universe.
Having all my lesson plans ready and organized for the coming days, I went to pick up my wife from work.  On the way, I thought I&#8217;d give a quick call to my parents, to let them know I was alive and assuage the guilt of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingtree.wordpress.com&blog=3462151&post=303&subd=wanderingtree&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not from my heart, but from the hearts of others:
Beautiful post from Anne Jackson on FlowerDust.net. 
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Inspiring Daily Show clip Brian McLaren posted on his site.   
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		<title>Thoughts on Tradition&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently in conversation with people on Julie Clawson&#8217;s blog (onehandclapping) which involves a discussion of tradition.
Interesting, thought provoking stuff.
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		<title>The Violence of Commitment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The violence we should use in religion is the violence of commitment:  Using every means you have as a creative being to bring yourself closer to God&#8230;I believe that everybody on earth was created in God&#8217;s image.  We are all related in being created.  So I, as a created [being] have to respect other created [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingtree.wordpress.com&blog=3462151&post=297&subd=wanderingtree&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes Art Comes From What We Walk Upon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This clip has been circulating all over the net, including two on my Google Reader, PeterRollins.net and Solar Crash.  I don&#8217;t think I have anything particularly insightful to add in addition to the &#8220;wows&#8221; and &#8220;OMGs!&#8221; I&#8217;ve seen elsewhere regarding this fascinating artist from Ukraine.  I will say that I took the opportunity to show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingtree.wordpress.com&blog=3462151&post=294&subd=wanderingtree&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee and Theopoetics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today a day for my mind to ramble and explore.  Currently reading Speaking in Parables by Sallie McFague and The Orthodox Heretic by Peter Rollins, both of which explore the metaphoric implications of parables.  Upon researching Sallie McFague&#8217;s bacckground online, came across Theopoetics(dot)net, a fascinating site exploring the relationship between postmodernism, narrative, poetry and theology.
All [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingtree.wordpress.com&blog=3462151&post=291&subd=wanderingtree&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walking.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It feels good to walk again.  No, I haven&#8217;t been injured in any way that&#8217;s had me bed-bound or unable to move.  I have been moving.  Perhaps a bit too fast, a bit too much.  And often in my car.  Going to work, errands, trips, and treks to the gas station to get more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingtree.wordpress.com&blog=3462151&post=288&subd=wanderingtree&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Monks are back.  School must have started&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;this is what I wrote recently in my journal, totaling the entries to two (2), because it&#8217;s a beautiful leather bound journal I received as a gift for Christmas years ago and I don&#8217;t want to mess it up with my scribbling.
So what I wrote must have, in hindsight, been pretty important.  And now, upon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingtree.wordpress.com&blog=3462151&post=285&subd=wanderingtree&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4000 Miles for a Pint with the Inklings&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was in England, I had a much anticipated pint at the Eagle and Child, otherwise known as the Bird and Baby, in Oxford.  This was a pub where my two favorite authors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis used to meet and share ideas, a place which had a role in the creation of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingtree.wordpress.com&blog=3462151&post=275&subd=wanderingtree&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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