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	<title>Knack For Noticing</title>
	
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		<title>You too?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I’m going to the reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg on its 150th anniversary. I am not a Civil War buff, though I do find it interesting. I’m going in place of my dad. My dad, Robert H. Fowler, Sr., was a Civil War Buff, published Civil War Times Illustrated magazine and wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boot Against the Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  was on a 6 pm flight from Memphis to Dallas several months ago. I had given several lectures at Memphis Theological Seminary. I had preached at their midweek Chapel service. I was physically and mentally fatigued.  It was a small American Eagle plane, the kind that has two seats on the right and one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saying Nes and Saying Yo: Discernment  and  Indecision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Let your word be “Yes, Yes” or “No, No.’; anything  more than this comes from the evil one.” (Matthew 5:37) Lately I’ve been translating this verse, Let your yes be “Not really, but maybe” and your no be “Sure, I guess I not.” (Matthew 5:37 the MCV version of the Bible = McKenzie’s Corrupted Version) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“A Psalm for Boston?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/?p=929</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a long time Psalm 121 has been one of my favorite psalms. I used to think the opening was lovely and inspiring “I lift up mine eyes unto the hills. Whence cometh my help? My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.” I still think it’s inspiring, but in a more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really? You’re Not Taking Any Notes??</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/?p=921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t give exams in my Introduction to Preaching classes. But maybe I should start. I don’t give exams, but, instead, students are evaluated on the basis of their sermons, the content based on a written manuscript, and the delivery in class. They also write several response papers to books I assign them to read. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New Motto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three occasions have arisen recently in which I have had to stand and deliver and, thank God, been able to do so. I am aware that the origins of “stand and deliver” are when English Highwaymen would stop carriages and demand that people deliver their jewels, pocket watches and valuables. It may be a dicey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a Pompous Letter</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2013/04/how-to-write-a-pompous-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/?p=910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I get asked to write a lot of recommendation letters. Today I’m writing three of them. Perhaps because I have so many other things to do today, I’m wasting time staring at my computer screen, pondering the particulars of letter writing, with which, up until now, I have not unduly concerned myself. How should I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harnessing the Darkness</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2013/03/harnessing-the-darkness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Easter approaches a lot of people are under the mistaken belief that being a Christian means living in a state of untroubled emotional bliss. They may feel that periods of anxiety and depression make one repellent to God. They may feel that they should not even attempt to scale the Kilimanjaro spiritual heights of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Gives??</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2013/03/what-gives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/?p=893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A pastor friend of mine told me the following story recently. About  ten years ago he was serving as a local pastor in Houston and owned a lake house on Lake Livingston in East Texas. The house was located in a wooded area with only two other dwellings nearby. His neighbor to the left was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Our Story Straight</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2013/03/getting-our-story-straight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyce McKenzie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/?p=886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am teaching a course on preaching and storytelling at Perkins School of Theology this spring. Every Tuesday afternoon from 1:30-4:20, 12 of us gather to hear stories, tell stories. and reflect on why they are such a powerhouse and how they function in our lives. We&#8217;re shaping an understanding of Christian preaching as placing [...]]]></description>
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