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		<title>The Green-Eyed Monster</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a nice blend-in alto voice that makes a pleasant contribution to our church choir. A woman I’ll call Peggy has a gorgeous soprano voice and is often asked to sing solos. We don’t really look alike, except that we have the same color and length of hair. A few weeks ago as I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>God Is Still Calling</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the privilege of being one of four keynote speakers for the Young Preachers Festival at Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. It was co-sponsored by the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection (COR) and the General Board of Higher Education &#38; Ministry (GBHEM) of the United Methodist Church. It was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Communicating Hope In Times of Crisis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alton Sterling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lorne Ahrens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Krol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Zamarripa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perkins School of Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philando Castile]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By now the world knows too well the horrible events of Thursday night, July 7, 2016. A peaceful protest of the recent deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling in St. Paul and Baton Rouge was ambushed by a young vet named Micah Johnson. He killed 4 Dallas Police Department police (Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spiritual Fitness Training</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2016/07/spiritual-fitness-training/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our family spent a week in Breckenridge, Colorado last summer. During the week we went on several hikes. The altitude there is almost 10,000 feet. While I had heard people complain about nausea and fatigue due to the altitude, I was pretty confident in my fitness level, given my 30-45 minute daily aerobic workouts. When [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Declutter Your Home</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2016/06/how-to-declutter-your-home/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2016 19:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the past few years, I have had as a goal to declutter our home. My goal is to have our home reflect our current interests. I enjoy the process of decluttering and the order it brings to the home. Decluttering means boxing up the soccer trophies to give to our adult son Matt who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Come In and Have Breakfast</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[abolitionists]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Pembroke]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kindness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fugitive Blacksmith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Wright]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Central Pennsylvania, in a small town on the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg. Almost 20 years ago my husband and I and our three children moved to Dallas, Texas. We make several trips to Pa. every year to visit parents and extended family. On our most recent trip I caught an interview [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Surprise! You&#8217;re the Keynote Speaker!</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2016/03/surpise-youre-the-keynote-speaker/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Preaching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lent]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was at a banquet years ago that focused on celebrating the progress made by a consortium of ministers and churches to combat hunger in the community. I was having a delightful conversation with a pastor seated next to me, Rev. Goodson. The organizer of evening stood up and prayed over our meal and then [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hold Steady!</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2016/03/hold-steady/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life of Prayer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harriet Tubman]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The theme of holding steady has been in my mind and spirit lately. It seems to be everywhere I look. A few nights ago on the news there was a story about bus driver Logan Tyer in Aledo, Texas. As he was picking up his last few children on the way to school, it started [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Little Red Hen</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2016/02/the-little-red-hen/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[helping]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In December I was at World Market doing some Christmas shopping. I browsed through the scarves looking for gifts for my daughters and my son’s fiancée, and through the specialty foods section looking for unusual condiment for my foodie friends. My basket full of purchases, I was in the checkout line when my eye caught [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mixed Emotions</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/knackfornoticing/2016/02/mixed-emotions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyce McKenzie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is there any such thing as an unmixed emotion? I wish there were. It would be a lot simpler to be a human being, a lot less tangled up. Looking back over the last several months, I tried to find one. But alas, complexity is all that meets my eye. Our son and his fiancée [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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