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	<title>Ellen Painter Dollar</title>
	
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		<title>Factory Disasters in Bangladesh, Consumerism, and Original Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I approach buying clothes for my children with the same compulsive attention to my kids&#8217; individual needs and wants that I bring to Christmas gift buying. Focused attention to my kids&#8217; clothing needs is, for me, as much an embodiment of maternal love as cooking is for some moms. Finding a shirt that I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does God Hate Clutter? I Used to Think So, But Now I’m Not So Sure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All of our stuff can distract and overwhelm us, but it can also provide context. Our clutter can remind us that matter matters, that the bodies we inhabit and tend, the food we make and eat, the clothes and toys and mementos made or given or used with love can bind us to each other, and to those who came before and come after.]]></description>
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		<title>At Home in a Place Where Imperfect Bodies Are the Norm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At my local pool, people with limps and spots and wrinkles are the norm, and it's the statuesque blonde in a bikini who raises eyebrows. This is my kind of place.]]></description>
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		<title>The Summer When I Didn’t Cherish Time with My Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 08:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: I wrote this in the summer of 2009. I am reposting it here as summer approaches, as a reminder (to myself, above all) of how radically life can change us in surprising ways. I used to despise the summertime, for reasons I explain in this post. Now, I have become like a cat, chasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Articulating the Mystery of Faith: Christian Wiman’s “My Bright Abyss”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We Christians are sometimes taken to task for the way that we, when embroiled in difficult conversations about whether or not God exists, chalk things up to &#8220;mystery.&#8221; Our atheist/agnostic conversation partners see this (rightly, in some cases) as a cop out, as a way of saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t really understand why I believe, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressive Christians Do Care About Abortion: A Response to Rachel Held Evans</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/05/progressive-christians-do-care-about-abortion-a-response-to-rachel-held-evans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 11:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogger/author Rachel Held Evans wrote an excellent post last week titled Why Progressive Christians Should Care About Abortion. She traced her own history, from embracing an evangelical pro-life stance to her gradual understanding of abortion&#8217;s complexities, and recognition that those who are &#8220;pro-life&#8221; do not always support policies that sustain non-fetal lives, such as those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Mother’s Day 2006 Was the Beginning of the Rest of My Life</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/05/how-mothers-day-2006-was-the-beginning-of-the-rest-of-my-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the story I told at this past weekend&#8217;s inaugural Speak Up storytelling event in Hartford. In my next email newsletter, I will include a link to the Speak Up podcast, which includes my telling this story to a live audience (with considerable more humor than comes through in the written version), along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents-to-Be Have More Choices Than Ever, But We Can’t Choose Our Way Out of Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/05/parents-to-be-have-more-choices-than-ever-but-we-cant-choose-our-way-out-of-heartbreak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Gilmore’s story is enough to scare anyone away from open adoption. (It also provides the best supporting evidence ever for my contention that &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just adopt?&#8221; might be one of the stupidest questions known to humankind.) After years of fertility treatments , Gilmore and her husband settled on an open domestic adoption. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Don’t Call Myself a “Cancer Survivor” (&amp; Why We Should All Think Twice Before Donning a Pink Ribbon)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/05/why-i-dont-call-myself-a-cancer-survivor-why-we-should-all-think-twice-before-donning-a-pink-ribbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 08:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three autumns ago, I walked into a radiologist&#8217;s office after a follow-up mammogram. He pointed to my films on a computer screen, and before he spoke, I knew I had cancer. I saw the trouble clearly—a cluster of opaque white dots in the upper portion of my right breast. My cancer, a type called ductal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Take on Why Bad Things Happen to Good People</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/04/a-different-take-on-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=1964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Questions around suffering and pain are stock in trade for me as a writer. I know that I can&#8217;t stand most Christian justifications (i.e., bullshit) for why terrible things happen. I know that even well-thought-out theological arguments around how God can be all-powerful, all-loving, and yet allow great suffering still fall far short for me. I [...]]]></description>
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