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	<title>Ponderings</title>
	<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog</link>
	<description>ponderings of a parish pastor - the intersection of faith, family and politics</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>unAmerican humor</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/07/15/unamerican-humor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you are beyond youthful indignation when you see the cover of the New Yorker and, ignoring the jeers and the cheers, all you can think is, ‘gosh, that Michelle is a great looking militant.’  I wish I could look that good with boots and an AK-47!
To be sure, I can see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoidance of Money, the Root of Evil</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/07/11/154/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the opportunity to spend the afternoon with my two older brothers.  My role is the be the family bleeding heart socialist, my next older brother is a fiscal conservative that would like you to he is Mr. Potter (It’s a Wonderful Life), though in fact while he abhors spending money he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imus speaking the unspeakable</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/06/27/imus-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Imus is at it again, speaking the unspeakable.  When hearing the crime tangled story of a prominent athlete, Imus asked, &#8220;What color is he?&#8221;
Like the rest of America, I found his question viscerally offensive and quickly typed the opening line of a ponderings.  That was on Monday.  On Thursday, I return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>messing with the gloria patri</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/06/27/messing-with-the-gloria-patri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My first adult church was an enchanted place with historic architecture (the rounded Akron Plan), stained glass windows, and a pipe organ that sang.  The First Congregational UCC in Menomonie, Wisconsin came complete with bats in the belfry and in every other dark corner. 
In rich wooden pews, scratched with years of stories, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>when right is wrong</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/06/18/when-right-is-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/06/18/when-right-is-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you pray to be wrong. 
When being right about your fears signals a path of unmitigated disaster, being wrong would be a blessing.  When you fear that the police sirens are heading towards your speeding car, you pray to be wrong.  When your child’s behavior shifts and you fear they’re dabbling in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sometimes I wish</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/06/12/sometimes-i-wish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish my eyes hadn’t been opened.
Sometimes I wish I could no longer see
All of the pain and the hurt and the longing of my
Sisters and me as we try to be free.
Sometimes I wish my eyes hadn’t been opened,
Just for an hour, how sweet it would be
Not to be struggling, not to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sex and the city</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/06/05/sex-and-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Confessions may be in order.  I took Winnie and her friend to see Sex and the City yesterday, and I inhaled.
As gratuitous sex goes, it was a pretty mild offering.  The fairy tale offering of happy ever after, however, was over the top.  As my colleague said, “it leaves you with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on the exhale</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/05/29/on-the-exhale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 15:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For weeks, I have been holding my breath, waiting for this school year to close.  Summer’s welcome reprieve is especially sweet this year.  It has been an emotional ride and as I look around and see all of us still standing, I am grateful.  I think I might be able to breathe.
As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ancient promises and modern heresy</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/05/22/ancient-promises-and-modern-heresy/</link>
		<comments>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/05/22/ancient-promises-and-modern-heresy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My church history professor warned us to be cautious of history textbooks, for the victors get to write the &#8220;official&#8221; version. To understand the whole story, she pushed; we would do well to read from the margins.  She invited us to dig in the trenches and climb the poles of heresy for a better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>you have heard it said</title>
		<link>http://liturgyoutside.net/blog/2008/05/15/you-have-heard-it-said/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katyhawker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  Revisiting Matthew&#8217;s remembrance of Jesus&#8217; teaching on the law (Matthew 5), I was pondering what the parallels would be in our modern discourse.  He named the legalism of the day, and then pushed beyond the legalism to the heart of the matter.  Using a (preachable!) call-response motif, he was able to [...]]]></description>
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