<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	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/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Irreverin</title>
	<atom:link href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/</link>
	<description>Seeking the sacred in family, culture, politics, and sometimes,  even ministry.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:26:29 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>
	hourly	</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>
	1	</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator>
	<item>
		<title>Whose Flag Do You Carry?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2021/01/whose-flag-do-you-carry/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[a good week for progress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being a Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith and community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitol riot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurrection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus flags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mob]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump flags]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10467</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The irony of all those Jesus flags in the midst of the chaos and destruction is the very truth it proclaims: Jesus does, in fact, save. He is, in fact, the way--when other ways lead to death. He is still truth; when other ways are littered with conspiracy, lies, and misinformation. When those who raise that flag act in ways that counter its benediction, we are called to the work of reclaiming its truth. ]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Hard Candy Christmas: And Other Songs You Need This Year</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2020/12/hard-candy-christmas-and-other-songs-you-need-this-year/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Advent and Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2020]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pandemic holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10443</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[If your old holiday standards aren't quite cutting it this year, there are others that hold extra layers of meaning as we come to the end of this long, strange year. ]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Passing By</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2020/12/passing-by/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 13:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Advent and Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desert life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith and community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage and Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advent 3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quarantine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10429</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[In these days that feel like the same day, spinning itself out over and over again, we've maybe even forgotten what extraordinary feels like. We scarcely remember that something startlingly beautiful, maybe even miraculous, can pass by our door without warning. ]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Peace, Love, Apocalypse</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2020/12/peace-love-apocalypse/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Advent and Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desert life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith and community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas decorations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday lights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10423</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[You'll hear a lot of religious extremists these days talking about the end times- God coasting down with an entourage of horsemen and a lot of fire and fury (sometimes the biblical is cinematic in its own way); but that's not what this particular ending is about. We are just witnessing a falling away. And that, really, is what the season of Advent has always been about. It's just that most years, we bury it in presents, activities, and happy jingle-jangle that we start singing right around Halloween. 

This year- maybe it's down to just the falling away. And how we are left with the reckoning. ]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Light, Enough</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2020/11/light-enough/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Advent and Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas; advent; pandemic; holidays; faith and culture; spirituality; progressive christianity; faith and family; advent with kids]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10412</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[I am the laziest holiday decorator in the world. Christmas is the only season for which I even make a humble attempt, and my decor collection is a hodgepodge of stuff I’ve gathered over the years: things I’ve found at thrift stores; a few things I’ve paid actual money for; things my kids made; and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Racism Is The Emergency: News From Louisville</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2020/09/racism-is-the-emergency-news-from-louisville/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black lives matter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breonna Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louisville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayor fischer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state of emergency]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10402</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Racism is the real emergency. What if we truly addressed systemic racial injustice with the urgency that we would a coming flood or fire? What if we all dropped everything to ensure that all of our neighbors were safe? What if this became the one thing that was at the center of everything for awhile? ]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Sacred Dissent: The Legacy of RBG, and What Comes Next</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2020/09/sacred-dissent-the-legacy-of-rbg-and-what-comes-next/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[a good week for progress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Ginsburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCOTUS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10393</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Few people in the world have used their voice of dissent as effectively as she did. Granted, her 'I dissent' carried a heft that few of us possess. But never think for a moment that our own voices, combined with the weight of a few others--or a few hundred, or a few thousand others-- does not hold the same transformation potential: to bring about progress, and the fullness of life for many. ]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>How It&#8217;s Always Been</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2020/08/how-its-always-been/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 14:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social distancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worship]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10367</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[100 years from now/ they will sit in churches/ and worship in wide circles/wearing masks as Sunday best.]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Church Deserts: And the Unique Opportunity of Online Community</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2020/08/church-deserts-and-the-unique-opportunity-of-online-community/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2020 14:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[desert life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith and community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good News for Progressives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital worship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith and culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remote church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remote worship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small town life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10343</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[A church desert is a place where your choices of worshipping community are limited. It's not that there aren't churches there. Lord knows, small towns and rural areas often have more than their fair per-capita share of steepled buildings and changeable letter signs. The problem is that those churches might not be what you're looking for; diversity of belief is a rarity. Just like the small grocery store that sells only convenience food, the church that is nearest your home might not have the basic amenities that you need to feed your spiritual life. And if that is the case-- where do you go? ]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Privilege of Denial</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2020/07/the-privilege-of-denial/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Wathen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Being a Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith and community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipartisan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coronavirus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mask]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white fragility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white privilege]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/?p=10324</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[There are some striking parallels between those who refuse to mask up, who call the whole thing a hoax; and those who insist that "All Lives Matter, that racism does not exist in 2020, and that they, themselves, have no implicit bias that affects their worldview.
All of these folks end up being asymptomatic carriers of an ill that costs countless lives; all because their privilege allows them to deny the suffering of others.]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
