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		<title>Book a Day, Giveaway 010: Informing the Future and 011: Freedom in Exile.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/01/17/book-a-day-giveaway-010-informing-the-future-and-011-freedom-in-exile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for my absence this past week! I&#8217;ve got some catching up to do! I&#8217;m giving away two books today in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today. The first is Informing the Future: Social Justice in the New Testament This is one I pulled off my regular shelves (as opposed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize: He almost deserves it.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/10/09/wow-obama-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/10/09/wow-obama-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wow!&#8221; was my initial, unbridled reaction when I read about the Nobel committee&#8217;s selection of President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize. I was in bed, reading the news on my iPhone, and leapt out to share it with the kids. Before I could say anything, I was greeted with, &#8220;Yeah, Dad, Obama won the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG, go watch Kings, now.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/07/omg-go-watch-kings-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s got it all: atheism, spirituality, god, scifi, and good music!! Hulu&#8217;s got the first four eps up right now (and it doesn&#8217;t keep them forever), so go catch up. It&#8217;s too smart and too well written to stay on the air for long. It&#8217;s the story of Kings David and Saul transposed into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparks! (I&#8217;m Back)</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/21/sparks-im-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Doubt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few weeks when I first stopped being able to find time to blog, I kept windows open in Safari to the point that it was neigh on impossible to shut down my computer, for fear of losing all the wonderful and amazing links I was going to share! But then I got into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Monday: Christopher Walken is awesome</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/10/music-monday-christopher-walken-is-awesome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/10/music-monday-christopher-walken-is-awesome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from years ago but truly, absolutely worth it: Lyrics (and, if you follow that link, here&#8217;s the final frame)]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Heavenly Mother &amp; the Celestial Glass Ceiling</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/04/spark-heavenly-mother-the-celestial-glass-ceiling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/04/spark-heavenly-mother-the-celestial-glass-ceiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belief]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating discussion/speculation about the position of women on earth and how that mirrors their position in heaven. Includes speculation about what might have been the course of humanity if the Abrahamic God was a female. via.]]></description>
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		<title>Pragmatism v. Idealism</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/24/pragmatism-v-idealism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/24/pragmatism-v-idealism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We make sense of the world and our relation to it through the stories we tell.  Back in my young and wild Mormon days (riding bikes with the gang down the street of Japan, doing drive by conversions), I told the story of Joseph Smith to anyone who would listen.  The cool thing was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Monday: the Grave</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/06/30/music-monday-the-grave/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/06/30/music-monday-the-grave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to this the other day while packing and it made me cry (as it always does). If anything could make me a pacifist, it would be this song: Don McLean&#8217;s the Grave [wp_youtube]Z4G2iKDzHrs[/wp_youtube] This line, particularly: When the wars of our nation did beckon, A man barely twenty did answer the calling. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Particular Harbor</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/20/one-particular-harbor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/20/one-particular-harbor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 04:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up listening to music that was not what is generally considered age-appropriate. (Guy Lombardo, Tom Lehrer, Peter Paul &#038; Mary, for example.) Jimmy Buffett was one of them. This song always makes me think of heaven. Not my heaven, perhaps, but it&#8217;s definitely his heaven. And it gets me every time I listen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/04/04/my-pilgrimage-to-nonviolence-by-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/04/04/my-pilgrimage-to-nonviolence-by-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[wp_youtube]k04KzgYRKrE[/wp_youtube] In place of the regularly scheduled Leaving the Garden series, I bring you Dr. King&#8217;s difficult journey that ultimately led to his acceptance of nonviolence and the rejection of American Christian political orthodoxy.  His Pilgrimage to Nonviolence is a fascinating and intimate revelation of his initial convictions, his questioning process, his doubts, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on &#8220;4000&#8243;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/03/25/on-4000/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/03/25/on-4000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the news (and blogosphere) seems able to talk about today is the fact that the official number of American soldiers killed in Iraq since we went back to war there has reached 4000. There was not one (un)lucky person who tips the scales to a nice, round, reportable number, but 4. And this morning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another discussion of femininity in this race</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/03/13/yet-another-discussion-of-femininity-in-this-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/03/13/yet-another-discussion-of-femininity-in-this-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/03/13/yet-another-discussion-of-femininity-in-this-race/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[heh, didn&#8217;t originally mean race like that, but it works that way, too. A recent book is out, called the New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America With Women&#8217;s Values. I&#8217;d like them to have a few quotation marks in that title (&#8220;&#8230;Change American With &#8220;Women&#8217;s Values&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;), but it certainly looks interesting. Feminist Law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Walked to the Grocery Store Today</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/02/09/i-walked-to-the-grocery-store-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/02/09/i-walked-to-the-grocery-store-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, How Walkable is Your Neighborhood? I&#8217;ve been walking to the local grocery store recently. Mostly because I think it&#8217;s a waste to get into my car after having driven home simply because I don&#8217;t have any ideas about what dinner should be. And because my favorite grocery store, TJ&#8217;s is not too far, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>42</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/17/42/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/17/42/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since we first invaded Afghanistan &#038; Iraq, I&#8217;ve seen these &#8220;War is not the answer&#8221; bumper stickers. I like the sentiment, even if I may not always agree with it. As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;m not and probably could never be a non-violent person. But there are extremes to every situation. I&#8217;m not one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We soldiers of all nations who lie killed.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/04/17/we-soldiers-of-all-nations-who-lie-killed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2006/04/17/we-soldiers-of-all-nations-who-lie-killed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pacifism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Found this in the May/June 2004 Adbusters: We soldiers of all nations who lie killed Ask little: that you never, in our name, Dare claim we died that men might be fulfilled. The earth should vomit us, against that shame. We died; is that enough? Many died well, Of both sides; most of us died [...]]]></description>
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