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	<description>Mormon Reflections from the Antipodes</description>
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		<title>So you’ve been called to serve a mission in New Zealand! Some insider tips for the Americans</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2013/06/so-youve-been-called-to-serve-a-mission-in-new-zealand-some-insider-tips-for-the-americans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been travelling over the last three weeks and last night I found myself in Provo with a group of friends when the discussion turned to mission preparation in the context of this wave of new young things who are about to be unleashed, bright eyed, and bushy tailed onto the world. The thing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sacred Mormon Schvantz</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2013/05/the-sacred-mormon-penis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 03:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=904</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thoughtful recently about the cultural privileges that my husband has as a Mormon man in possession of his full male faculties. He is spared a tremendous amount of time thinking and wondering about what it means to be a woman amidst Mormon males. He is simply unburdened by the need to think everything [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>71</slash:comments>
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		<title>Today church made me sad</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2013/03/today-church-made-me-sad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning with a sigh.  I don’t every morning.  But today I did because it’s Sunday, and on Sunday I go to church, and sometimes church makes me sad. &#160; But I do recall one wonderful Sunday, when I was about 23.  I was volunteering with a local disability support service and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The New Introduction to Official Declaration Two: It’s just not that satisfying…</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2013/03/the-new-introduction-to-official-declaration-two-its-just-not-that-satisfying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2013/03/the-new-introduction-to-official-declaration-two-its-just-not-that-satisfying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I once belonged to a ward where the personality of said ward was defined by a long standing rift between two women, then in their 80’s, who had, decades before, determined that they couldn’t stand the sight of each other.  I shall henceforth refer to one of the women as Sister Stick (who was my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>LDS Church HQ announces its Relocation to New Zealand!  (Well, not really but…..)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2013/01/lds-church-hq-announces-its-relocation-to-new-zealand-well-not-really-but/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2013/01/lds-church-hq-announces-its-relocation-to-new-zealand-well-not-really-but/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a one month summer hiatus its time to hit the New Year with more unwanted opinion from the antipodes! What better way to kick 2013 off than with a bit of serious silliness? Sitting around our dinner table last night was our usual contingent of diminutive masculinity, but we were joined by three young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Pants &amp; Shootings:  How will it end?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/12/on-pants-shootings-how-will-it-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/12/on-pants-shootings-how-will-it-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week one of my readers invited me to participate in the ‘Wear Pants to Church’ Sunday campaign.  She gave me a link to the Facebook page so I could get a sense of what this was all about.  I smiled to myself and thought it sounded like a bit of a giggle.  And then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Southpark changed Mormonism</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/12/how-southpark-changed-mormonism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/12/how-southpark-changed-mormonism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago Joanna Brooks (via Skype)  and I gave a public lecture at the University of Canterbury entitled &#8216;What if Popular Culture Changed Religion?&#8217; in the &#8216;What if Wednesday&#8217; series.   While the title of this post is  slightly tongue in cheek,  we traced the relationship between Mormonism, the public, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reflections on My Spiritually Heterogamous Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/11/reflections-on-my-spiritually-heterogamous-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/11/reflections-on-my-spiritually-heterogamous-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LDS Church Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=839</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Heterogamy:  refers to a marriage between two individuals that differ in a certain criterion. Homogamy:  a marriage or union between partners that match according to that criterion.  (wikipedia) &#160; I grew up in a home managed by my Mormon mother and my Catholic step-father.  While I have said before that this has given me a more [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Romney’s Defeat:  A wake up call for Mormons?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/11/romneys-defeat-a-wake-up-call-for-mormons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/11/romneys-defeat-a-wake-up-call-for-mormons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mormon Conservatism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American presidential elections are a bit bonkers but wonderfully diverting.  I’ve looked on with keen interest as  $6 billion dollars in campaign expenditure was gobbled up, and a searing ideological divide was created.  And after months and months of vitriol and meteoric nastiness  the President didn’t even change.  But of one thing I am sure, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>54</slash:comments>
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		<title>The New Zealand Marriage (Definition of marriage) Amendment Bill: A private comment on a public submission</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/10/the-new-zealand-marriage-definition-of-marriage-amendment-bill-a-private-comment-on-a-public-submission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2012/10/the-new-zealand-marriage-definition-of-marriage-amendment-bill-a-private-comment-on-a-public-submission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Colvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/?p=815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 29th August 2012 the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill passed its first reading in the New Zealand Parliament by 80 to 40 (with one abstention).  From here the Bill went to a Select Committee for further consideration.  Public submissions closed on the 26th October.  I had been wondering if  the church would [...]]]></description>
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