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		<title>Spark: an Interesting Discussion of Gender Roles</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/30/spark-gender-roles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gender roles see a &#8216;conflict&#8217; shift in work-life balance&#8221; at USAToday. Hat tip to @unapologeticfem (site) I&#8217;m not certain that anything in there is great news, but it does seem that there is some kind of cultural change at work, which is something.]]></description>
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		<title>LDS Temple Ceremony goes Prime Time.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/07/lds-temple-ceremony-goes-prime-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/07/lds-temple-ceremony-goes-prime-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently some aspect of the LDS temple ceremony will be portrayed on HBO&#8217;s Big Love (tonight?). Here&#8217;s a picture that was forwarded to me, apparently from TV Guide: Mormons are decrying this as sacrilegious and disrespectful, of course, but as one of thousands who was hoodwinked into going through the ceremony and socially coerced into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Lent09</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I told a professor here (who was running a forum on the Question of God) that my religious background is ex-Catholic but that I am an active blogger in the ex-Mormon part of the Bloggernacle; that my husband is humanist, my father-in-law is Buddhist, and my mother-in-law is First Nations/Pagan. I got an awesome look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zulu Tattoo</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/02/zulu-tattoo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/02/zulu-tattoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation & Prayer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember when I first wanted to get a tattoo, but it was sometime in high school. I wanted a yin yang on my ankle. In college, I finally got it, but at the last moment, I changed its placement to my lower back. It was amazing. It was transcendent. It was painful. It [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blog for Choice 2009: My Top Pro-Choice Hopes</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/22/blog-for-choice-2009-my-top-pro-choice-hopes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/22/blog-for-choice-2009-my-top-pro-choice-hopes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Blog for Choice Day and I encourage everyone to visit the blogroll of bloggers taking part and to visit their blogs, if only for this one post. Also, feel free to revisit my posts from &#8217;07 and &#8217;08. This year&#8217;s topic is &#8220;What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexplained Absence</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/21/unexplained-absence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/21/unexplained-absence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to log into WordPress a few days ago so I could comment. This impresses upon me exactly how long I&#8217;ve been radio-silent. A week before finals, we had a Let Us Tell You How Unprepared You Are for Finals Assembly in which we were told to apologize now to our friends and family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I hold this truth to be self evident: it is time for Barack Obama to become president</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/11/i-hold-this-trut-to-be-self-evident-it-is-time-for-barack-obama-to-become-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/11/i-hold-this-trut-to-be-self-evident-it-is-time-for-barack-obama-to-become-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peace; conflict resolution.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[an awesome vid &#038; song: Politicians that can give me hope. Music that can give me hope. Maybe this country is going somewhere good.]]></description>
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		<title>the Pulpit Initiative—or, should churches maintain their tax exempt status?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/29/the-pulpit-initiative%e2%80%94or-should-churches-maintain-their-tax-exempt-status/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/29/the-pulpit-initiative%e2%80%94or-should-churches-maintain-their-tax-exempt-status/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Freedom Sunday has come and gone. I didn&#8217;t hear anything on the news this morning about whether or not major changes are in the works, but I&#8217;d like to hear from the MoF crowd about this. Should churches be tax exempt or free to use their spiritual influence to exert political influence (and pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance: Food for Thought</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/microfinance-food-for-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/microfinance-food-for-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microfinance is the lending and borrowing of (relatively) small amounts of money. Generally, the lender is a (relatively) rich Westerner and the borrower a poor citizen of a developing country. And I don&#8217;t mean relatively poor; I mean abject poverty, where $25 to buy a goat means the difference between being able to feed your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Law?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/26/what-is-the-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/26/what-is-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just started Law School (yesterday!) and one of the major focuses of the first classes in each course was this question. We were asked to define the law in our own words. What is the purpose of law? This question received answers like &#8220;civilizing of society&#8221;, &#8220;justice&#8221; (which was further defined as incorporating concepts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Allow things to be as they are&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/03/17/allow-things-to-be-as-they-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/03/17/allow-things-to-be-as-they-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/03/17/allow-things-to-be-as-they-are/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I visited my parents this weekend. Although he&#8217;s in a wheelchair whenever he leaves the house, he looks a lot better than the last time I saw him (after the diagnosis). Although that may be attributable to the fact that he&#8217;d just gotten off a plane. After seeing him that time, I had a post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Goal Review: January</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/31/2008-goal-review-january/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/31/2008-goal-review-january/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Goals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/31/2008-goal-review-january/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two John clones, Boss Me and Slave Boy, materialize in a great and spacious waiting room in John&#8217;s subconscious. Boss Me: Front and center, Slave Boy, it&#8217;s time for our monthly review of your 2008 goals. Slave Boy: &#8220;Slave Boy?&#8221; Really, who comes up with these names? Do I have an outfit that goes with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Ritual</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/01/new-years-ritual/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/01/new-years-ritual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, I make plans to become this: But actually accomplish little more than this: For 2008, I&#8217;ve decided to do something a little different. I&#8217;ve decided to a) make all of my goals measurable; and b) to report to you periodically on my progress. Not that you care, but that&#8217;s besides the point. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stars.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2004/01/25/stars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2004/01/25/stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Goals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindonfire.com/dev/2004/01/25/stars/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[you all know the saying, &#8220;reach for the stars, but settle for the moon.&#8221; i strain for the stars, and when i make it only so far as the moon, i sulk on the dark side, lamenting that the lights have proliferated across the sky and are still so very far away. i list the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>resolved.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2003/12/31/resolved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2003/12/31/resolved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[new year&#8217;s resolutions: i am constantly making lists of unattainable self-improvement goals, but there is something significant in my mind about the new year. perhaps posting these to mindonfire will empower me in their ultimate attainment. 1. family: i will spend more time with my family this year&#8211;more date nights with jana, more walks and [...]]]></description>
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