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		<title>Come On, God, This Isn’t Working</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Increasing complexity seems to be a part of aging. Certain things might become simpler, especially after retirement (can’t speak to that yet), but the external streamlining inevitably masks growing internal complications. I suspect these complications begin much earlier than we imagine, but the busyness of child-rearing and career-building, the distractions of success and ambition, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Measure of a Life</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/drybones/2024/06/the-measure-of-a-life/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Tales from My Father]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ephemera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I spent some time with my Dad going through old files. We sifted through a wide assortment of papers that included: 1) memorabilia around his first pastorate in Loomis, Nebraska—annual reports, Sunday bulletins, newspaper clippings about the fire that destroyed the church, groundbreaking on a new church, correspondence including the church’s call and his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Blue Christmases to Blue New Years</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sadness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those who suffer experience a deep relief when the holidays are finally over. At least they can stop pretending jolliness, if they even had that much energy. The blues, however, are not banished by the New Year. For some, they can actually intensify as the sense of a “new start” with all its promises seems [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer: Our Father</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ludolph]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Father]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord's Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ludolph of Saxony]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ludolph now moves into the specific petitions of the Lord’s Prayer. The “address” causes him to reflect deeply on the mysteries of that introductory phrase. Whom are we addressing when we call on “Our Father in heaven”? He focuses on three components in that opening petition: 1) Father, “whose children we are by faith.” This, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Is the Prayer of Salvation?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/drybones/2023/08/what-is-the-prayer-of-salvation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ludolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord's Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sermon on the Mount]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, my medieval friend, Ludolph of Saxony, brings to our attention the Lord’s Prayer, beginning by commending it to us as the prayer that “excels all other prayers” and that which “enshrines an immense number of mysteries.” I’m not sure that opinion is widely shared in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Goodness Conundrum</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/drybones/2023/08/the-goodness-conundrum/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ludolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[admiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goodness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[praise]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jesus sums up his counsel about relationships with this command: “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Mt 5.48). This perfection, Ludolph explains, is “the perfection of grace,” and it enables us to “be perfect in the way we can be” (not in the way we can’t be, thankfully). It’s a perfection of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Generosity, from the Inside Out</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/drybones/2023/07/generosity-from-the-inside-out/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ludolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enemies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patience]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[At this point in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gets very irksome. Until now, we can see the value of his counsel—control your anger, be faithful to your spouse, stay honest. Okay. All good points. But now he’s telling us, apparently, to do things that will really mess with the system: don’t resist an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Sermon, Hair Color, and Swearing</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/drybones/2023/07/the-sermon-hair-color-and-swearing/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ludolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oaths]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Of course I don’t cuss. Well, not much. So that takes care of the Sermon’s verses about oaths, right? (You potty-mouthed people might want to spend more time with them though.) Ludolph, my medieval guide to the life of Jesus (see below), writes eight chapters on the Sermon on the Mount, concluding this one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Author of Purity</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/drybones/2023/06/the-author-of-purity/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ludolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[purity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-indulgence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sermon on the Mount]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  “Purity” is a term reserved today for the properties of vitamins or the quality of drinking water or specialty treatments at spas. It has long sense lost much moral weight with people, and “purity culture” actually now has deeply objectionable connotations and a sad track record. Ludolph, however, sees Jesus’ words in the Sermon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Virtue Signaling to Virtue</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/drybones/2023/06/from-virtue-signaling-to-virtue/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Mulhern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ludolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sermon on the Mount]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ludolph’s commentary* on the Sermon on the Mount moves into touchy ground when he begins to talk about Christ’s plan to fulfill the law, and his warning that his disciples, too, must demonstrate true righteousness. “Sound doctrine,” he writes, “without virtuous living is not sufficient for salvation.” I know we all say that sound doctrine [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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