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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Good Letters</title> <link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters</link> <description>Words. 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Made Flesh.</title><link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2012/05/good-letters-words-made-flesh/</link> <comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2012/05/good-letters-words-made-flesh/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:15:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Taylor Olsen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=420</guid> <description><![CDATA[Welcome to Good Letters on Patheos. For over four years, we at Image, a literary/arts journal inhabiting the intersection between art, faith, and mystery, have published the daily Good Letters blog on our website, www.imagejournal.org. 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