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		<title>In memory of Jo, or how to live well&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a phone call on Friday to tell me my close friend from university, Joanna, had been killed that morning. A cement mixer lorry reversed into her as she cycled to work. Such sudden losses are shocking and difficult &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/in-memory-of-jo-or-how-to-live-well/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=2089&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing the story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Pithouse, reflecting on the recent riots in England&#8230; &#8230;The young people contained in decaying council estates are bombarded by relentless corporate propaganda conflating access to consumer goods with meaning, beauty and dignity. Cameron likes to say that there are &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/changing-the-story/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=2074&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Idea for a social experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lets take a group of people and constantly bombard them with the idea that they &#8216;need&#8217; certain possessions in order to be &#8216;happy&#8217; and fulfilled&#8217; say, for the first sixteen years of their lives, while simultaneously keeping them in poverty &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/idea-for-a-social-experiment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=2068&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cellist of Sarajevo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the last military leader wanted for war crimes during the Bosnian War of 1991-1995 was arrested. On May 27, 1992, during the siege of Sarajevo, 22 people queued for bread, anxious to feed their families from one of the &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/the-cellist-of-sarajevo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=2058&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty-Salvation Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you&#8217;ve seen the Dove Evolutions video before. The first time I watched it with a bunch of teenage girls, there was a split second of shocked silence at the end of the clip. Then outrage as they literally started &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/the-beauty-salvation-myth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=2039&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am not a theologian</title>
		<link>http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/why-i-am-not-a-theologian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal. Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun These lines from a story &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/why-i-am-not-a-theologian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=2023&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Forest Fires</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;I tell you, on that day of judgement people will give an account for every careless word they speak&#8217; (Matthew 12:36).  *** A match is struck. A tiny spark is carelessly dropped into the dry, dense undergrowth. In seconds the &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/avoiding-forest-fires/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=2017&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Procrastination and Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was in the library avoiding anything remotely productive reading &#8220;around&#8221; my essay topic, when I came across this incredible sermon called Self-inflicted Violence, by Ellen Davis. Davis explores the somewhat uncomfortable relationship between violence and praise in Psalm 149:6-9 and in the &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/procrastination-and-violence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=2003&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;The Urgent Matter of Books&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/on-the-urgent-matter-of-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 23:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been mulling over something I read all day, and I should probably mull over it some more before I respond to it, but I&#8217;m impatient, and I also get my best inspiration to write late at night, so here &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/on-the-urgent-matter-of-books/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=1995&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why it&#8217;s worth it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 21:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching can be a stressful profession at times, but when you get asked questions like these it all seems worth it: Small Child #1: Miss King, I can&#8217;t remember why Jesus died for us on the cross, please could you &#8230; <a href="http://talesofasojourner.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/why-its-worth-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesofasojourner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13807408&amp;post=1991&amp;subd=talesofasojourner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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