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		<title>Spirituality for Skeptics.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/25/spirituality-for-skeptics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi. My name is John, and I&#8217;m a spiritual atheist. Like &#8220;God,&#8221; the word &#8220;spirituality,&#8221; is a conveniently ambiguous term. That said, it&#8217;s not so vague as to be totally meaningless. I think it captures an area of concern better than any other term out there. I especially like Wikipedia&#8217;s definition: Spirituality can refer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MoF Podcast &#8211; Episode 001: Interview with Brecken Chinn Swartz</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/26/mof-podcast-episode-001-interview-with-brecken-chinn-swartz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus, I&#8217;m starting the podcast back up. There are a few changes, however: I&#8217;m abandoning the &#8220;Atheist&#8217;s Prayer&#8221; title, and rebooting this as simply the &#8220;Mind on Fire podcast.&#8221; The content will range widely, but will include stories I&#8217;ve written, interviews and conversations, and fun audio projects like the First of May [...]]]></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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sexual Identity &amp; Faith: Growing Up Gay in a Christian Family</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/sexual-identity-faith-growing-up-gay-in-a-christian-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/sexual-identity-faith-growing-up-gay-in-a-christian-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another lecture that was put on at my school, this time by the ACLU, in response to Prop 8. The California Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments about the Constitutionality of Prop 8 a week from tomorrow. In preparation for that, the local ACLU chapter invited to gay people who grew up in [...]]]></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>Music Monday: Christmas Songs</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/22/music-monday-christmas-songs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/22/music-monday-christmas-songs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a playlist called &#8220;Holiday&#8221; that contains 379 songs, including a startling number of &#8220;O(h) Holy Night&#8221;s. One of the things I miss the most about Christmas with my family (probably the only thing, really), is singing. I remember harmonies and piano accompaniment and Spike Jones. Now, I play holiday songs in my car [...]]]></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>Dualism: Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/08/dualism-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/08/dualism-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading chandelle&#8217;s recent post and the comments that followed, I had occasion to think about my dualism, which I&#8217;ve discussed at length before. Many of the comments discuss the &#8220;spectrum of sexuality&#8221;, how there may be some people who are completely heterosexual or completely homosexual, but that most people likely fall somewhere in between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You have to be like, insane holy.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/01/you-have-to-be-like-insane-holy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/01/you-have-to-be-like-insane-holy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This comic by Kate Beaton perfectly captures the resignation I often feel towards work, simplicity/consumerism, and ascetic spirituality.  Following the link gets you to a long page of unlinked comics–find in page for “Hiked to Italy” for the complete comic.]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Training</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/22/spark-training/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/22/spark-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry for all the sparks recently, but I couldn&#8217;t resist this one. Enjoy!]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1152</guid>
		<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>More Fun Quotes for MoF</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/06/30/more-fun-quotes-for-mof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/06/30/more-fun-quotes-for-mof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been collecting emails since the success of the last Fun Quotes post. Without further ado: A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. -James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987) This is definitely something I&#8217;ve believed in for awhile. It&#8217;s just nice to hear someone with authority say it (in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Reflections on your beliefs</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/06/11/spark-reflections-on-your-beliefs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/06/11/spark-reflections-on-your-beliefs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I checked out this survey on a prompt from Pharyngula. I recommend that you do the same. We may indeed be giving the creator of the survey food for thought, but what I found was that it was a good, concrete way to think about my own beliefs, hang-ups, and tendencies. I think it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Fiction &amp; Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/20/science-fiction-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/20/science-fiction-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 21:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, many of you will have heard that one of the Vatican&#8217;s astronomers has indicated that there might be life on other planets. Even that they might be without sin. Many of my favorite science fiction books involve the intersection of religion and space travel (Dune and Ender&#8217;s Game chief among them). But really, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On humanist contemplatives</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/17/on-humanist-contemplatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was happy to receive a link from Rick Heller about the Humanist Contemplatives of Houston, who focus on self improvement, introspection, and achieving eudaimonia. They gather to meditate or contemplate in a serene setting, offer mutual moral support in meeting personal challenges, experience the profound in the arts, and share new ideas and traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>keeping up my end of the bargain</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/08/keeping-up-my-end-of-the-bargain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/08/keeping-up-my-end-of-the-bargain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really feel that I&#8217;ve been pulling my feminist weight around here recently (and that big long post about American Gladiators really rose from my husband&#8217;s comment; I expanded it because I wasn&#8217;t certain all our dear readers knew what AG was). And that really also means I&#8217;ve not been pulling my blogging weight [...]]]></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>Funereal Practices in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/12/07/funereal-practices-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/12/07/funereal-practices-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;s for John. On NPR the other morning, I caught the last piece of this report and it got me thinking. I&#8217;ve always said that &#8220;funerals are for the living&#8221; and so I really don&#8217;t find the practice of having funerals for pets all that weird. As one of the interviewees said, Their grief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Afternoon Tea: Tea of Balance</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/11/30/friday-afternoon-tea-tea-of-balance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/11/30/friday-afternoon-tea-tea-of-balance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know we&#8217;re not doing the Friday Afternoon Tea any more, because it&#8217;s not really part of the &#8220;new&#8221; MoF. But I&#8217;m logging this under spirituality, so there (don&#8217;t expect one next week) Regular readers should have discovered by now that I am, among many many other things, a dualist. I have a yin-yang tattooed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Constitutes a Spiritual Practice?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/11/28/what-constitutes-a-spiritual-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2007/11/28/what-constitutes-a-spiritual-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking of this recently, as I prepared for judo. DH &#038; I have stopped going to tai chi and I really miss it, not because I enjoyed it per se but because it felt like it was filling some kind of a void. I no longer go to church on Sundays (and never [...]]]></description>
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