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		<title>Zulu Tattoo</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/02/zulu-tattoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Mary in Catholicism: Close to my heart (Spark)</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/30/mary-in-catholicism-close-to-my-heart-spark/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/30/mary-in-catholicism-close-to-my-heart-spark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two recent news stories impressed upon me the fact that I will always be some kind of Catholic. Even if it&#8217;s ex-Catholic. My first step in rejecting religion was exploring my own. This started as what I later knew to be feminist critique of Catholicism. The more I learned, the more it seemed clear to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Are you really an atheist?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/29/are-you-really-an-atheist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/29/are-you-really-an-atheist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[said the friend sitting next to me at Christmas Eve dinner, with a vague look of disgust on her face, like I&#8217;d just admitted to enjoying self-flagellation. I was in the company of a number of people who had escaped Western religion (all some form of Christianity) and landed firmly in Eastern religion (all some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Does Religion Empower Women?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark-does-religion-empower-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark-does-religion-empower-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WaPo&#8217;s On Faith asks its panelists Does religion empower women? This is one of the few On Faiths that I&#8217;ll probably read each response to. I&#8217;m looking forward to the Christian/Catholic answer, which I&#8217;ve found generally centers around &#8220;having kids is empowering!!1!&#8221; There is some wonderful evidence for non-child-based empowerment which I&#8217;ve yet to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a Jihad for Love</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/15/a-jihad-for-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the trailer for a new movie, a Jihad for Love. I thought it was apropos given Prop 8&#8242;s drawing ever nearer. It is a story about the struggle of gay Muslims. I have added it to my Netflix queue, but if it comes out in the greater LA area, I&#8217;ll prolly get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t want to F the Ineffable.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/06/i-dont-want-to-f-the-ineffable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/06/i-dont-want-to-f-the-ineffable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did some bad things during my stint as a Mormon missionary in Japan.  I&#8217;d like to repent of one of them right now. Some of my Japanese friends confided deep, personal spiritual experiences with me.  In several cases I coopted their experiences for my own ends, and using my words, contorted them so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheist Mysticism</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/12/17/atheist-mysticism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/12/17/atheist-mysticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a place within atheism for mystical experience.  By this I mean those sublime moments in which we feel a deep awe and a sense of connection to humanity and the universe.  I&#8217;ve had a number of such instances throughout my life, and I treasure the lasting sense of inspiration, peace and sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duality: Chaos &amp; Order</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/09/28/duality_chaos__order/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/09/28/duality_chaos__order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in high school, if I wanted to do anything on a Sunday (missing church), I'd have to go to Saturday evening mass. Since the English Community only had one service a week, and since it was 50k away, I'd walk down to the local Catholic Church and sit in the way back (eventually it did occur to me that I didn't have to go there, just be gone for the right general amount of time, but I still usually hung out around there). I found it much easier to tune out mass in German, so I often spent the hour or so thinking Deep Thoughts. One of the major Deep Thoughts was of chaos &#038; order.

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		<title>The Expected One</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/04/12/the-expected-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/04/12/the-expected-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kathleen McGowan When walking through the airport last year sometime, I ran out of airplane activities (I&#8217;m somewhat limited these days) and found myself in an airport bookstore. Two books caught my eye: Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse and the Expected One, by Kathleen McGowan. Both appeared to be (in the little time I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious ethics for the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/01/26/religious-ethics-for-the-21st-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/01/26/religious-ethics-for-the-21st-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miko</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindonfire.com/dev/2007/01/26/religious-ethics-for-the-21st-century/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The three major monotheistic religions all have holy books that date to a minimum of 1400 years ago. This makes the relevance of these supposed Divine rules somewhat suspect. A Jewish cartoon that I enjoy reading has an interesting take on Jewish bioethics, including links under the cartoon to discussions of same. Among some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dualist.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/12/13/dualist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/12/13/dualist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those few of you who have seen me online know that I have many &#8220;available&#8221; messages including &#8220;Heretic&#8221;, &#8220;Portable Pagan&#8221; (my other computer had me as simply &#8220;Pagan&#8221;), &#8220;Sacralicious&#8221;, &#8220;2nd person of the Divine Trinity&#8221;, and the above, among others less incendiary. I had this particular one up and a friend of mine, who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Night of the Soul, Part Two (Midnight).</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/12/09/dark-night-of-the-soul-midnight-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/12/09/dark-night-of-the-soul-midnight-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had two major life-changing spiritual experiences. The first, at seventeen, helped propel me into the LDS Church. The second, some seventeen years later, eased me back out. The former was dominated by a sense of beauty, connection and purpose; because I was investigating the LDS Church at the time, I understood the sublime experience [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dark Night of the Soul, Part One (Twilight).</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/12/07/dark-night-of-the-soul-part-one-twilight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/12/07/dark-night-of-the-soul-part-one-twilight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindonfire.com/dev/2006/12/07/dark-night-of-the-soul-part-one-twilight/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In which an struggling believer stumbles into spiritual darkness. The most profound spiritual experiences tend to be described in positive, glowing terms. People talk of being saved, of &#8220;seeing the light,&#8221; of feeling love, or of feeling a deep sense of connection to God, the universe, to humanity. I don&#8217;t want to speak about any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Query of the Week.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/12/03/query-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/12/03/query-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my missionary companions told me that whenever he read the Book of Mormon, he experienced &#8220;a dark feeling&#8221; inside. As I&#8217;ve read about the spiritual experiences of mystics like St. John of the Cross (who gave us the concept of the &#8220;dark night of the soul&#8221;) and Simone Weil and atheists/agnostics like John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witchy Ways</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/11/06/witchy-ways/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/11/06/witchy-ways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So: here&#8217;s a question. More than one of my sisters (all very conservative, very Catholic), goes to a chiropractor/nutritionist who I refer to as the Witch Doctor. She has diagnosed many allergies in many of my nieces and nephews and&#8230;neph-dogs? She energy tests what she prescribes to make sure it&#8217;s what the body needs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving with the radio off.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/07/02/driving-with-the-radio-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/07/02/driving-with-the-radio-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving down I-40 just outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I decided to not (pleasantly) numb my brain with the radio-slash-iPod but to listen to my heart&#8217;s core instead. I came up with the mandate to increase a sense of the following for the next little while: Generosity: I have a tendency to be sensitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/03/22/pilgrims-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a spiritual self-assessment and realized that in spite of distancing myself from the Church for the past few months, I&#8217;m spiritually more on task than I&#8217;ve been in a long time. I&#8217;ve restarted the quest for the experience of God that I aborted about a year ago, and I&#8217;ve moved from atheist-critic to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God is pain.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/03/16/god-is-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/03/16/god-is-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My God is a god of suffering. Here&#8217;s my rationale: God is perfectly compassionate. The deeper the compassion, the greater the empathy. One cannot have compassion for others in a world full of suffering without sharing that pain. There is perfect joy as well, but I think that people tend to overlook the sorrowful aspect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditations on Simone Weil, Two.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/03/07/meditations-on-simone-weil-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/03/07/meditations-on-simone-weil-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few more incredible insights from a woman who essentially starved herself to death at the age of 34. The following are from Waiting for God. Replace Catholicism with &#8220;Mormonism&#8221; or &#8220;organized religion&#8221; and this expresses many of my concerns beautifully: [From the introduction:] It was with Father Perrin that Simone Weil argued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditations on Simone Weil.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/03/05/meditations-on-simone-weil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/03/05/meditations-on-simone-weil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to open each day by reading from and then meditating on the writings of Christian mystics. Right now I&#8217;m supping from the pages of Simone Weil&#8216;s Waiting for God: If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one&#8217;s own damnation while in disobeying him one could be saved, I [...]]]></description>
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