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	<title>Carl McColman</title>
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		<title>Can Love Be Saved? Some Thoughts on the World Today</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl McColman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy Valentine’s Day! I recently published a post on Patreon called Can Love Be Saved? which might be an interesting post to read today. Patreon is a membership website, so normally anything published there is behind a paywall. But this particular post I decided, after publishing it, that I wanted to make it available to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;This Loving, Uniting Embrace&#8221;: the Holy Ordinary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today’s guest post is by Mark Longhurst, author of The Holy Ordinary: A Way to God  I feel drawn to a life of spiritual depth, inspired by the mystics, but I’m not a monk, nun, or even a professional pastor serving a church anymore. I’m just an ordinary dude working a job I am privileged [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Elect Silence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl McColman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[N.B. I wrote this post for my new Substack publication, Mystical Journey. But since the message is timely, I’m cross-posting it here. Despite its significant flaws, Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain is a modern classic of contemplative and mystical literature. But did you know that when it was published in England, it was given a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Four Dimensions of Mindfulness and Centering Prayer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl McColman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 12:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In chapter five of his book Buddha Is as Buddha Does, dharma teacher Lama Surya Das offers this fascinating insight into the nature of mindfulness: According to Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there are four kinds of mindfulness. First comes average mindfulness—the attention that springs naturally and spontaneously through our own interest in a particular person, situation, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Believe Prayer Changes Things. Here&#8217;s a Few Thoughts Why.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl McColman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miracles]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I posted this on Facebook not long ago… A couple of people posted comments to the effect of “Please say more about how prayer changes things.” That’s a great question and so here are a few thoughts in response. First, I don’t believe prayer is magic. I once heard that Episcopal priest and writer John [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>You don&#8217;t have to become a monk to be a mystic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl McColman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A reader wrote to me recently: Hello, I am interested in becoming a Christian Mystic. However I am not sure if I can join a monastery due to being a Baptist Christian. If you know any monasteries that I could join while being Baptist, please let me know. Also, I would like to know other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>If You Worship an Angry God, You&#8217;ll Be An Angry Person</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl McColman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A reader named Paul wrote to me with the following question: Why is there more often than not such an intolerance, condemnation and even hatred between the different faiths and denominations ? Is it the Devil causing this? Paul, thanks for your question. Before I get into it, I must say that I think “The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Contemplative Reflection on the Death of Christ</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl McColman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Allen, who is a reader of this blog, recently sent me a thoughtful email; here are some excerpts from what he wrote: I have a profound connection with the teachings of Jesus, yet I struggle with certain aspects of Christian fundamentalism, particularly the exclusivity that sometimes accompanies it… For me, life seems to be about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Difference Between Apophatic and Kataphatic Spirituality</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl McColman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 17:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, my very first spiritual director recommended a book to me; she suggested that I read Gerald May’s 1982 classic: Will and Spirit: A Contemplative Psychology. I did, and it remains one of my favorite books on the psychology of contemplation. Among many other treasures that I gleaned from this book, it introduced [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Meister Eckhart: A Deeper Dive (33 Books to Explore)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl McColman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Facebook friend recently posted a request for suggestions on books by or about Meister Eckhart. There are so many, that I couldn’t figure out a succinct way to respond to the request, so I figured I’d just post a list of books here instead. So what follows is a list of books featuring English [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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