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		<title>The book I wish I had written&#8230;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Love of God is wanton. That wantonness defies all the things we are taught, it runs roughshod over our gatekeeping and management and "discipleship". Its extravagance is offensive, dangerous and as necessary as oxygen.&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://allywrites.com/2020/08/24/wagingpeacebook/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">The book I wish I had&#160;written&#8230;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>He sat alone at lunch&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My son started his junior year today at a new school, a city of 3000 masquerading as a school. He walked in with his head held high, despite knowing he would know no-one. His bravery was stunning. Which made the crestfallen yet resolutely hopeful courage that swept across his face as he told me about&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://allywrites.com/2019/08/13/he-sat-alone-at-lunch/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">He sat alone at&#160;lunch&#8230;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2019 13:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are no words to bring her back. There are no numbers to count the weight of her loss. There is no measure of her impact. There is only grief mingled with hope, tears rolling down a face set like flint towards Jesus. Rachel Held Evans left this life and entered into the next yesterday.&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://allywrites.com/2019/05/05/woman-of-valor/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Woman of Valor</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Conversations with an Old Friend.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hey, less of the old, if you don&#8217;t mind!?&#8221;  The shout echoes across the pond. This holiday season brought me a beautiful gift in the form of 10,000 steps a day with my oldest and dearest friend.  When the Best Friend Ever™ comes to stay and is on a health kick, you walk.  And when&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://allywrites.com/2018/01/29/conversations-with-an-old-friend/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Conversations with an Old&#160;Friend.</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Let us be a family&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Church, the beautiful living expression of Jesus' body on earth that is called to transform the earth, needs the wounded Warrior Women to lead, to share, to disciple us in the Broken Way.  We need their voices and their tears.  Because in them we see Jesus. A Jesus who always sought out and loved the broken and the lost over the put-together and in-charge.&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://allywrites.com/2017/11/06/let-us-be-a-family/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Let us be a&#160;family&#8230;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Because #MeToo is more than a hashtag</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on <a href="https://shoesandshortcakes.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/because-metoo-is-more-than-a-hashtag/">Shoes and Shortcakes</a>: <br />Sometimes it feels like everyone is against me and no one is doing anything about it. Sometimes it feels like society cares more about protecting others&#8217; reputations than protecting my safety. Sometimes it feels like ugly and manipulative lies are believed and valued above fearful and vulnerable truths. Sometimes it&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This morning I had reached a point in my memoir manuscript which I had merely placed in parentheses "... (X kiss.../ att'd rape.. / rescue). 

I couldn't bring myself to write That Story.  It was too hard, too real.  "No one wants to read that much truth", my inner voice said. But the flood of #metoo posts gave me courage. Courage to tell this story;&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://allywrites.com/2017/10/16/metoo/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">#MeToo</span></a>]]></description>
		
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