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		<title>A Reign of Dangerous Lunacy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2016, when Donald Trump was elected to be President of the United States, I was simultaneously dumbfounded and unsurprised. I was dumbfounded because I couldn’t believe that such a human being, utterly unfit for political office and so utterly unformed ethically, intellectually and personally, could have won a Presidential election.  But my Mormon nose has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hoarding the Sacrifices of Ordinary People:  A Question of Ethics</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2019/12/hoarding-the-sacrifices-of-ordinary-people-a-question-of-ethics/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien I’ve never seen the LDS Church in such damage control. Interviews, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Year After a Church Discipline and I&#8217;m Still Mormon!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 21:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I would be remiss if I didn’t give a  huge shout-out to President Russell Nelson who has, by decree,  un-coupled the LDS Church from the moniker ‘Mormon’.   This means the word ‘Mormon’ can now refer to any one of the 400 or so churches and groups who have genealogy right back to Joseph Smith’s original [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Five Days after the Christchurch Shootings:  Subversive Compassion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I read the international response to the Christchurch mosque shootings,  I find some Americans (#notallamericans) over-busy trying to fit into their heads the possibility that our community response to this terrible event is to draw together and offer compassion and peace in spite of our differences. It’s a subversive act to take such a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From Christchurch: A Critique and a Lament</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2019/03/from-christchurch-a-critique-and-a-lament/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After gathering in our five sons from their schools where they had been in lockdown for several hours we sat in front of the news together, in silence and horror. Then, as the night drew on we switched off the television, lit a candle and prayed. We prayed for the victims and their families. We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Open Letter to the Christchurch Stake on the Day of My Church Discipline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[A Thoughtful Faith]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Sisters and Brothers of Christchurch Stake, I recall several years ago talking with a former Stake President about the reasons for church disaffiliation.  He’d just been to a regional meeting and inactivity was a discussion point. He recounted several explantaions offered at the meeting; a) People had been offended. b) They weren’t faithful enough [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why not just resign?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2018 01:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before I address the concerns of the many, many people who have reached out to me since my impending Church Discipline was announced, let me just say: It’s Advent. This season is far more important Christian news than my discipline.  Furthermore, the event of my Church Discipline is not nearly as significant as the pressing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When the LDS Church Disciplines a Woman</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 19:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whatever you may think about the soteriology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it offers big, audacious blessings.   I  went to the temple to be sealed to my first husband when I was 19.   That marriage didn’t last,  but that was OK because when it came time to marry  Nathan, President [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In the Wake of  General Conference: Let&#8217;s Talk About Spiritual Abuse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 21:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Zina Huntington (1821-1901) was a young woman in her prime when she married Henry Jacobs.   But Joseph Smith had long fancied her.   Her marriage to Henry, however, was no impediment to Joseph whose superior priesthood afforded him the right to approach the married Zina with a polygamous marriage proposal. This he did proclaiming that he’d [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Church Leaders are More Important than Church Children</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/kiwimormon/2018/09/when-church-leaders-are-more-important-than-church-children/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Colvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2018 22:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[A Thoughtful Faith]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.” – Eckhart Tolle When I was 11, the first man entitled to ask me if I kept the law of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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