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		<title>Belonging Before Believing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m all set up to teach an intensive 3 week class at McCormick Theological Seminary this May with my colleague Pastor Alise Barrymore from The Emmaus Community in Chicago Heights. It&#8217;s called Belonging Before Believing: New Communities and Emerging Forms of Church. The class will run from May 13-June 3 if we get at least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1760&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Church for the 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a 3-day leadership consultation with the national offices of the Presbyterian Church (USA). My good friend and colleague, Rev. Shawna Bowman was there too. She wrote/drew the amazing notes above, while we were talking about new things that are happening or that we wish were happening in the churches. The gathering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1733&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be Amazing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last two weeks I&#8217;ve been preaching on 1 Corinthians 12, the verses where it talks about us having a variety of gifts empowered by the same spirit. It&#8217;s a message that Paul was giving to the church at Corinth, so that all people in the community would be honored and so that people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1704&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unambiguous Appearance of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Epiphany, a day on which we celebrate the appearance of God in human form&#8211;the incarnation. Although we celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25th, today we celebrate the first &#8220;appearance&#8221; of Jesus to the Gentiles. This marks his being seen by the Magi, the &#8220;three kings.&#8221; They symbolize the first non-Jews who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1667&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I Want to Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a saying that pastors have about five sermons that they preach again and again throughout their careers. It&#8217;s the core message that you want to get across to the world. As I&#8217;ve been preaching weekly sermons for two months now, and weekly teachings and reflections for 10 years, I took a moment to list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1671&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Special. Completely Precious.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things change. Time passes. Does anything stay the same? Today I am taking a few moments at my desk to remember. Just to remember who I am and where I come from. Just to remember what I have now and where I am. For a moment I am not going to imagine where I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1643&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Future</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2012/11/11/no-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a wonderful spiritual director through The Claret Center in Hyde Park. We&#8217;ve been meeting for about 8 months and focusing on how to achieve balance in my life. In other words, how can I rest? What stops me from renewing? Why do I let my sabbath time slip so easily away? How can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1605&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passages</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2012/11/02/passages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was my first day as the pastor at St. James Presbyterian Church, and this Sunday will be the first day I preach there in that capacity. So I&#8217;ve been reflecting on the concept of passages, how we pass through to new places and new stages and even new ways of being throughout our lives. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1594&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God is Here, Now</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2012/10/29/god-is-here-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Prayer Among Friends by John Daniel Among other wonders of our lives, we are alive with one another, we walk here in the light of this unlikely world that isn&#8217;t ours for long. May we spend generously the time we are given. May we enact our responsibilities as thoroughly as we enjoy our pleasures. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1555&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Place, New Ministry, New Possibilities</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2012/10/21/new-place-new-ministry-new-possibilities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon I will celebrate my 10-year anniversary of ordination. Unbelievable. I have been serving Grace Commons and its predecessor, Wicker Park Grace, for ten years. Even as new possibilities open up, I will continue to serve as the pastor at Grace Commons&#8211;but things are changing! Beginning November 1st, I will also become the half-time pastor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1526&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The good, the bad and the inconvenient</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2012/09/24/the-good-the-bad-and-the-inconvenient/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good, the bad and the inconvenient by Marge Piercy Gardening is often a measured cruelty: what is to live and what is to be torn up by its roots and flung on the compost to rot and give its essence to new soil. It is not only the weeds I seize. go down the row [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1511&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Note on Bible Study</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2012/09/08/a-note-on-bible-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the bulletin at Grace Commons: We study and discuss the bible a lot at Grace Commons, and we do it as a way to stay in touch with our roots, but also to develop our own theology and to reinterpret the old texts in ways relevant to contemporary situations and understandings. The bible is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1425&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love your enemies: an illuminated reading</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2012/08/11/love-your-enemies-an-illuminated-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the techniques we&#8217;ve developed at Grace Commons is to read a scripture while inserting commentary as you go. People have told me that this is similar to expository preaching, although I&#8217;ve never learned about that specifically. I find that many people are hungry to better understand biblical stories, and definitely want to un-do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1334&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Prayer&#8211;Dear God, are you here?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These original photos were taken at Lake Michigan on my iPhone 4 through the instagram app. I tweeted them with words of prayer, and this is how I prayed that day. I put the slides with words into a PowerPoint slideshow, then turned that into a Quicktime movie and uploaded it to YouTube. In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1136&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Lunch with John Cobb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Well, and I was brave. I was attending the Emergent Village Theological Conversation a few weeks ago and just loving the conversation about Process Theology. On several occasions I was hovering around waiting for a chance to talk to John Cobb, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1107&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Soda Bread</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made an amazing Gluten Free Irish Soda Bread for dinner tonight. Wow. I&#8217;m trying to learn to cook and especially to bake gluten-free, so I can avoid spending an arm and a leg every time I want something bready. The banana bread last week was not so good as I blended the bananas up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1095&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joy ~ Consenting to Worthiness</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/12/11/joy-consenting-to-worthiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third week of Advent, and at Grace Commons we have a tradition of honoring Mary on this week. In the past we&#8217;ve used the theme of Courage and Action, contemplating how much courage it takes sometimes to move into action. Mary, the mother of God, is such a great, courageous example for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1047&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abundance in a throwaway culture</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/11/29/abundance-in-a-throwaway-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems like we have too much abundance in the U.S. I just came home from the store where I saw a box of chocolate covered cherries for $1.50. I bought a sweater for $11.00. It does not feel right, it feels wrong to be able to purchase a brand new article of clothing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1011&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thankful</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/11/23/thankful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so impressed with this woman. She is making a pie a day for a year &#8211; one to give away every day to someone for whom she is thankful. What a wonderful practice. My friend, Adam Walker Cleveland is a pastor at her church and was the lucky recipient of pie #186. I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=1001&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordle!</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/11/16/wordle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What fun! This week I was introduced to a new website: wordle.net. Just type in words, or paste in large amounts of text, and &#8220;create.&#8221; The larger the word, the more times it appeared in your text. This wordle is based on a combination of words people wrote down during the Taize Vespers gathering on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=989&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Violence: Police Awareness training</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/11/14/police-awareness-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I would watch bits of this, but ended up watching the whole thing, two hours! It&#8217;s very, very interesting information, which clearly comes from years of experience in social justice movements. Jerry Boyle from the National Lawyer&#8217;s Guild gave a two-hour training/workshop on how to deal with police at the Occupy Chicago site [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=969&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Life Well-Lived</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/11/06/life-well-lived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often speak about God&#8217;s dream for the world&#8211;that our world would become a place of shalom, meaning peace and wholeness and well-being. When I invite people to the communion table, for example, I often say that at the communion table we embody God&#8217;s dreams for a world where there will be no more tears, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=954&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Graceful Living: Faith, Values, and Money</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/11/05/graceful-living-faith-values-and-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November I&#8217;m blogging this book by Laura Dunham, Graceful Living: Your Faith, Values, and Money in Changing Times. Laura is a Presbyterian minister, a certified financial planner, and a former college professor. We&#8217;re taking a look at Stewardship at Wicker Park Grace, and how our relationship with money affects our relationships with the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=941&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Network of Friends Seeking Transformation</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/11/01/a-network-of-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always amazed when I watch this video, by the huge amount of similarity we use in talking about our emerging efforts at being church in new ways. Created in the spring of 2010 at a gathering in Minneapolis, this video features 16 really cool people doing awesome things across the country. Each of us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=909&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming Bully Proof</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/10/19/becoming-bully-proof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a good friend of mine was in a car accident (no one was injured), and the driver of the other vehicle leaped out of his car and called her a horrible string of names that can&#8217;t be repeated here. Being in a car accident is a scary thing, for everyone involved. For a moment, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=780&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty of Heart Means Openness</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/10/17/poverty-of-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reviewer at Publisher&#8217;s Weekly described my understanding of hospitality as &#8220;capacious.&#8221; I had to look that word up! (You can read the full review on the Amazon.com site.) Capacious means containing or capable of containing a great deal, roomy. Yeah. So, not only my book, but hospitality, too. A roomy heart and life. Capacious! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=519&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Born of a Woman</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/10/15/born-of-a-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year (2010) in the weeks leading up to Christmas, we did an art project at Wicker Park Grace during our Sunday Gatherings in which we transformed Christmas advertisements into a spiritual symbol. The idea was to disconnect from the excessive commercialism that Christmas has become, and reconnect to the underlying spiritual story of how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=702&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Story Bread, connecting us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed our new video earlier this summer, here it is again. It&#8217;s just 4 minutes long, and gives a good sense of the spirit of Wicker Park Grace! Towards the end of the video you&#8217;ll see me breaking bread and talking about the meaning of communion. That week I called the communion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=634&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All about Relationship</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/10/12/its-all-about-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile, someone finds me on facebook to tell me what it was like to read my book. I love that and I&#8217;m so grateful that something I&#8217;ve created helps people. Despite having &#8220;hospitality&#8221; as the title, the book is really about how to become a more loving, whole person. One reader wrote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=526&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Wait for a Gandhi</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/10/10/dont-wait-for-a-gandhi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a situation that seems endless and is a negative situation, don’t wait for a Gandhi, don&#8217;t wait for a King, don&#8217;t wait for a Mandela. “You are your own Mandela; you are your own Gandhi; you are your own King. You know your issues; you know your concerns, and you know the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=663&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just found out that a dear friend has stage 3 cancer. I don&#8217;t even know what that means, except that she had surgery yesterday, and I was told by another friend to pray, pray, pray.(For privacy I am not putting her name, but she doesn&#8217;t live in Chicago.) I used to live with her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=652&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missional + Faith + Community</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/09/27/missional-faith-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wicker Park Grace was started with grants from the Presbyterian Church (USA) as a &#8220;new church development (NCD).&#8221; Seven years of annually smaller and smaller grants end this year. The initial idea was to start a church in a new way, maybe a &#8220;church without walls.&#8221; Something that would be more resonant with millennial people. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=614&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for the Evil Within Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my book on Hospitality-the sacred art, I have a chapter devoted to hospitality to our enemies. These are two words we don&#8217;t put together in our heads (or our practice) very often. Hospitality. Enemies. The idea is very akin to the Jesus concepts of &#8220;Love your enemies,&#8221; &#8220;pray for those who persecute you.&#8221; When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=529&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psalms for Praying</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books for prayer and liturgy. We use this book almost every week at Wicker Park Grace for our liturgical psalm. We sing a refrain, taizé -style, sometimes an actual song from Taizé , and sometimes an original refrain composed to go with a particular psalm. In between the communally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=510&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restorative Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the sermon I preached on Sunday morning, Sept 11, 2011, at Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church. I gave a shorter version at Wicker Park Grace that evening. Click the audio icon at the end of this post to listen in. You can also right click here and &#8220;save link as&#8221; to download the mp3 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=463&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communion Means Loving Across Barriers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about communion in the Wicker Park Grace e-newsletter this week. It&#8217;s so important that I want to repeat it here. As a pastor, I have struggled with how to interpret communion and how to practice it in a community deeply committed to radical inclusion. In many times and places, communion has been interpreted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=447&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Psalm 8:3-4 While I was on retreat in Maine this June, I did some experimenting with my camera. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=388&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation to Relieve Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/08/04/meditation-to-relieve-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I wrote up a meditation for someone who has been experiencing a lot of anxiety about her future. I thought it might be helpful for others, so I&#8217;m sharing it here! Here is the idea for a meditation practice you could try: 1. Close your eyes and begin to focus on your breathing. Push [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=409&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disarming the Clobber Passages, #3</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/08/03/disarming-the-clobber-passages-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the final discussion of the movie Fish Out of Water, we moved on the three new testament passages used in discussions about the lgbtq community: Romans 1: 26-37, 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10. I touched upon Romans 1 in my recent post #2 on the Clobber Passages (July 24), so I&#8217;ll focus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=422&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being the Tides</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June I took a one-week retreat to a little cottage called The Sea Urchin. It&#8217;s nestled on the coast of remote Maine where I first encountered the tides in any significant way. I&#8217;ve made my peace with the tides by now, but the first summer that I spent a week at the Sea Urchin, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=379&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Video Glimpse of Wicker Park Grace</title>
		<link>http://nanettesawyer.com/2011/07/25/new-video-glimpse-of-wicker-park-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big thanks to Brandon Sichling for making this 4-minute video to give viewers a glimpse into the life of Wicker Park Grace!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=373&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disarming the Clobber Passages, #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in the Wicker Park Grace Movie Group we watched the next 10 minutes of A Fish Out of Water, and talked about the Holiness Codes of Leviticus, and the Romans 1 text which talks about &#8220;natural&#8221; and &#8220;unnatural&#8221; sexuality. The Holiness Codes, of which Leviticus 18:22 is a part, gave guidelines to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=356&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nanette Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The name of my blog used to be &#8220;Perfectly Imperfect,&#8221; by which I was trying to say that it&#8217;s okay to be imperfect. More than that, I was trying to remind myself that it&#8217;s okay that I am not perfect, but it didn&#8217;t work! The name just made me feel like I had to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=351&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disarming the Clobber Passages, #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we started a movie discussion group at Wicker Park Grace, based on the movie Fish Out Of Water. It tells the filmmaker&#8217;s story, who came out as a lesbian when she was in college and was rejected by all her Christian friends who told her she was going to go to hell. To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=334&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Splash for the Creator</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a bit daunted when I was invited to write a couple of lectionary reflections for the print edition of the Christian Century. One of the weeks I was asked to write about was &#8220;Trinity Sunday,&#8221; a day when preachers reflect on the Creator/Christ/Holy Spirit triad/unity.  It&#8217;s so easy to get caught up in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=321&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Bit of History &#8212; 2003 TV show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2003, the first full year that I was working as a minister in Wicker Park, I was interviewed for a &#8220;Spiritual Journey&#8221; segment on a Chicago TV show called 30 Good Minutes. In the video I tell the story of my separation from Christianity as a teenager, and years later feeling welcomed at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=310&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A last word on Hitchens &amp; god is not Great</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would be much more convinced of Hitchens' arguments if his book was about "How Fear Poisons Everything, even Religion." Or maybe, "How Shame Poisons Everything."
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		<title>Stations of the Cross (original art)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007 the Wicker Park Grace community created original art representing the Stations of the Cross. Traditionally, there are 14 stations, each representing a moment on the day of Jesus&#8217; crucifixion. We added a station 15 to represent the resurrection and complete the story. The idea of creating these stations was to bring the ancient [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=284&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Shall the Fundamentalists Win?&#8221; by Harry Emerson Fosdick</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["There is nothing new about the situation. It has happened again and again in history, as, for example, when the stationary earth suddenly began to move and the universe that had been centered in this planet was centered in the sun around which the planets whirled. Whenever such a situation has arisen, there has been only one way out—the new knowledge and the old faith had to be blended in a new combination. " Harry Emerson Fosdick<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=241&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irreducible objections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there have long been Christians arguing for literalism, there have also long been many highly visible Christians, leaders within the Church, who have been arguing against it. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nanettesawyer.com&#038;blog=1126715&#038;post=217&#038;subd=nanettesawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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