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		<title>Angels of Change</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change These are the opening lines in “Earthseed: The Books of the Living,” a collection of notebooks compiled by Lauren Olamina, the main character in Octavia Butler’s dystopian, frighteningly believable vision of the near future, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>God So Loved The World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today’s gospel reading gets us back to the basics. Sports fans old enough to remember the 70s and 80s will recall that a regular occurrence at baseball or football games either in person or on television was, when the camera panned the stands, to see a person—often wearing a colorful fright wig—holding up a large [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Be Like the Dunkers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Human beings never behave so badly as when they believe they are protecting God. Barbara Brown Taylor Every time someone claims that we live in a country founded on “Christian principles,” I think of Benjamin Franklin. His Autobiography is often a text at the appropriate time in the interdisciplinary program I teach in—it’s short, pithy, no [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Full Garden Story</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is the first Sunday of Lent; the gospel reading is always one a treatment of Jesus’ temptation in the desert. This year we get Matthew’s version. But today I’m particularly interested in the first reading from the Jewish scriptures–an edited version of Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden of Eden from Genesis 2 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An Ash Wednesday and Lenten Tale</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is Ash Wednesday, which for a hardcore Protestant such as I presents several issues. One Wednesday, the student in front of me in line at the little on-campus coffee shop in the building next to mine plopped what looked like a pre-packaged chicken Caesar salad on the counter. While fumbling for her card to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The World Can Shine Like Transfiguration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Each of the synoptic gospels, including today’s lectionary reading from Matthew, tells essentially the same story. Jesus takes his inner circle of Peter, James, and John to the top of a mountain where suddenly Jesus has a conversation with Moses [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The National Prayer Breakfast Gets an Unexpected Visitor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The annual National Prayer Breakfast happened last week. I don’t know what happened or what was said, but I can’t get this imagined picture from Facebook out of my mind. My sincere apologies . . . Once when I was the scheduled lector at church, the reading from the Jewish scriptures for the day was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>La Bella Luna: A Lunar Spirituality</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shortly before the 2013 conclave that would elect him as Pope Francis I, then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio urged his fellow cardinals to remember that Christians should live by the light of the moon rather than of the sun. Followers of Christ should reflect the source of light rather than acting as if they are the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Does the Lord Require of You?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the past months, I have become more and more familiar with how Lutherans do things. Over the past year-plus, Jeanne has become a licensed lay minister in a local Lutheran church. As she became more and more embedded with this parish, I accompanied her occasionally in support  an occasional occurance that has become weekly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Beatitudes: A Call to Change the World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vance Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is a scene so familiar in our imaginations that it has become iconic. On the top of a hill in the middle of the impromptu gathering is the man everybody has been talking about and has gathered to check out. He doesn’t look any different from any number of other guys in the crowd. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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