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	<title>Caryn Riswold</title>
	
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	<description>A feminist theologian in the Lutheran tradition writes about issues at the intersection of politics, religion, social justice, and pop culture.</description>
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		<title>Pentecost Happened</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday, Christians celebrate Pentecost.  As a liturgical moment, it marks the arrival of the Spirit and enlivening of the community of gathered Jesus-as-Christ-believers, described in Acts 2.  As a vocabulary word in my introduction to Christianity course, it means “fiftieth” day since Passover.  This is important because that gathered community, still perhaps reeling from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, College is Worth It: Justice, Opportunity, &amp; ‘the practice of freedom’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a set of remarks I delivered yesterday, graduation day, as part of a campus Celebration of Justice and Opportunity at Illinois College.  The Celebration was organized by students as an alternate to the College&#8217;s official baccalaureate. Normally, on a Sunday morning, I am doing one of two things:  going to church, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mama’s Day &amp; “The Balance of Justice”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations describes the Mama’s Day movement and it’s connection to Mother’s Day: Mother’s Day was originally founded as an antiwar rallying cry by Unitarian Julia Ward Howe. This history reminds us that Mother’s Day is more than a day for flowers and pancakes. It’s a time to highlight the aspects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Come Now, O Wisdom”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/carynriswold/?p=1375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rev. Jann Aldredge-Clanton has shared a new resource for those interested in more inclusive and justice oriented sacred music, this one with new words set to another familiar Christian hymn (“Lord of all hopefulness / Lord of all joy”) written by a woman, Jan Struther, who incidentally is most well-known for creating the character Mrs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honorable Mention: “I’m A Mormon Feminist”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 14:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because saying it matters almost as much as being it, cheers to the women and men claiming their religion alongside their feminist commitments over at “I’m A Mormon Feminist.” Here are a few of the great images you’ll find there: &#160; What is a Mormon feminist?  Here’s one answer: “Simply put, feminists want equality for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Three Posts in April</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/carynriswold/?p=1371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The top three most viewed posts in April 2013 here at feminismxianity were: Red Logo Resistance: Homonationalism and the HRC What&#8217;s Really Being Ignored in the Gosnell Case? Why Guys Throw Bombs It was a complex (difficult? tragic?) month for news related to religion, politics, and gender, and I think you see that these posts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to a Bishop</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/carynriswold/2013/05/open-letter-to-a-bishop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/carynriswold/?p=1365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“If you could have me read one article, what would it be? &#8230; Basically, what do you know that I should know?” One article!  One article?  Well, that’s the first challenge.  Ask any college professor for one reading recommendation, and you’re likely to get more than you bargained for.  However, I know that the work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chastity Brings May Flowers?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/carynriswold/2013/05/chastity-brings-may-flowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that’s not exactly what I learned about how the bright spring blooms take hold. Then again, this isn’t exactly a view of sex and God’s plan that I was taught either: Where to even begin?  There’s so much wrong with this image, and that only begins with casting as evil some of the very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macklemore’s Theology of “Same Love”</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/carynriswold/2013/04/macklemores-theology-of-same-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, by the time I got around to watching Macklemore’s Same Love video at the urging of my students, I was informed by others that they were already “over” Macklemore (especially because this thing called Thrift Shop &#8230;).  That generation gap just gets bigger every year. As described in a Huffington Post article, the song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Why Guys Throw Bombs”</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/carynriswold/2013/04/why-guys-throw-bombs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Riswold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an interview this week with National Public Radio, Mohamed Elibiary described the kind of young disillusioned Muslims that he encounters in his security consulting work: “I have never seen a female example here in the homegrown sphere here in the United States. There might’ve been a case but I haven’t read any literature or [...]]]></description>
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