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		<title>Flirting with Faith is Hitting the Road&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official. My humble little blog has captured the attention of the kind folks at Beliefnet.com and they&#8217;ve asked if I would like to join their team of daily bloggers. So, beginning Sunday, March 1, Flirting with Faith will be living at Beliefnet under this snazzy new banner (thank you Bnet designers &#8211; it is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On Being Cool Redux&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Ball]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not sure why, but starting 2009 with a repost from Sept 13, 2008 just felt like the right thing to do on this snowy day in New York.  Happy New Year to all&#8230; I don&#8217;t think I am remotely cool enough to roll with some of the new Christians. I’m forty-two and I sometimes watch [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shout Out to the Hurting at Christmastime</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Ball]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tonight is Christmas Eve and I find myself facing the first Christmas in recent memory, maybe ever, that I wish was over before it began. I&#8217;m not bah humbug, nor am I falling apart sad. I am just not feeling it. Not interested. Indifferent. Part of it has to do with the loss of both [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On The Great Emergence and Chasing the Wind</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Ball]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been trying to write a follow-up blog post about my trip to The Great Emergence event in Memphis since I returned to New York last week.  This should have been a no-brainer, really.  The event was well produced in a stunningly beautiful Episcopal cathedral.  Author and keynote speaker Phyllis Tickle delivered her thought-provoking thesis [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hope for Unity Across Generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My sister in law, a long time and devout Christian believer who I used to (not so lovingly) refer to as &#8220;The Baptinista&#8221; in my atheist days, sent me a link this morning. She knows I am here in Memphis at The Great Emergence event and that I am unsure why. She does not know [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Am I an Emerging Emergent? Maybe I&#8217;ll Find Out in Memphis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I leave tomorrow morning for The Great Emergence, a two day event in Memphis hosted by Phyllis Tickle and organized by Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt.  The release of Mrs. Tickle&#8217;s book of the same name is the premise for the event, but the schedule is jam-packed with speakers, breakout sessions and several opportunties to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Do You Write?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Ball]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about Caroline&#8217;s Ferdinandsen&#8217;s post on ConversantLife.com called A Case for a Little Spiritual Quarantine. One line in particular has haunted me since I read it.  Caroline writes, &#8220;my Christian faith has suffered from my chronic reading, interfacing, and networking this past year.&#8221;   I find this to be a chilling statement.  I do [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Creative Discipline&#8230;an Oxymoron?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Ball]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have never been one to set writing goals.  In fact, despite the fact that many creative and prolific writers swear by them, there is something about having to write a certain number of pages or for a certain number of hours every day that sucks the creative wind right out of me. I prefer the romantic notion [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Calling All Writers&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Ball]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  After more than four years of drafting, bumbling, abandoning projects and starting new ones I am thrilled to share that a large publishing house has agreed to take on my first book. It is a personal narrative called (surprise, surprise) Flirting with Faith: My Journey from Atheism to Agnosticism to a Devoted Life.   [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ever Been Hurt by Christians or the Church?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Ball]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a trend among some Christians that I would like to bounce of you.   Some churches, having heard and acknowledged that the capital-c Church has done many &#8220;unChristian&#8221; things over the centuries (and today), have taken to apologizing for current and past sins that have been committed in the name of Jesus. From [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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