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	<title>Good Letters</title>
	
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		<title>The Glass Coffin</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2013/05/the-glass-coffin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Langston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Hella Winston “To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.” –Meister Eckhart It seems rather ghastly now, given that he is serving a sentence of nineteen-years-to-life for murdering a cocktail waitress, but when I was in high school, I became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Orchestra Against Ignorance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 05:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peggy Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The alumni magazine of Brown University, my alma mater, begins its article on a unique orchestra like this: “We are an orchestra against ignorance.” That’s how Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim describes the West-Eastern Divan, which consists of young musicians hailing from Israel and its Arab neighbors. Picture a teenage violinist from Israel; his name is Ilya. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Corporal Work of Mercy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Griffith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was nearly two weeks late, so I already knew the answer, but I took the test anyway, in the bathroom of my dad’s house in Louisiana. We’d driven down from Virginia, two solid days in the car with our children, ages seven and two.  My sister drove her two days from Kansas. The long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deliver Us from Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patheos Admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post By Nancy Nordenson The day after the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, I sat myself down and considered my role in the tragedy. Now bombs have exploded in Boston and I’m asking myself the same question. Of course no bomb was built in my kitchen and no gun was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Tribes: Good Wishes and Good Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Woodlief</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One summer my family got evicted from the house we were renting in Florida. The welding jobs ended and my stepfather refused to do anything that wasn’t union work so we burned through our money while he watched television and waited for the union to call. My mother worked and did most of the cooking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Theology of Singleness, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patheos Admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post By J. M. Samuelson Continued from yesterday.  Alan Jacobs recently made a wise observation: &#8220;there are certain kinds of &#8216;growing up&#8217; that don&#8217;t happen until you get married—that simply getting older doesn&#8217;t do for you.&#8221; I&#8217;d like to point to some parallel category of knowledge specific to singleness, but I don&#8217;t know if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Theology of Singleness, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2013/05/3256/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 08:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patheos Admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post By J. M. Samuelson Publishers today are churning out self-help literature at ever-increasing rates. Many of these tomes aim at helping selves better enjoy or endure singleness. Based on my acquaintance with this literature I can say that few areas of descriptive English fail so utterly to satisfy as the nomenclature of singleness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Marrow of Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2013/05/the-marrow-of-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Huffman Polson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early this year, Spanish researchers published a peer-reviewed paper considering the evidence of social learning in Middle Pleistocene hominids as indicated by patterns of butchery. In the study, part of the Bolomer excavation under the auspices of the Prehistory Museum of Valencia, researchers examined bones to find that breakages during butchering to extract marrow occurred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging from the Tomb Intact</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2013/05/emerging-from-the-tomb-intact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsey Crittenden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a moment in Anna Karenina in which a frustrated Anna turns to her husband. She had been very sick, but she’s better now. During her sickness, over what they thought was her deathbed, her lover and her husband reached out and clasped hands. The urgency of her illness brought about reconciliation. Karenin, the wronged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuck In Your Artifice, It’s Showing</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2013/05/tuck-in-your-artifice-its-showing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vic Sizemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone shared Michael Chabon’s New York Review of Books blog post about the movies of Wes Anderson a couple months ago, I was initially drawn into his thinking about the nature of the world and of art making. I was with him as he talked about the schooling in brokenness, how we long for [...]]]></description>
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