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	<title>Living A Holy Adventure</title>
	
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		<title>The Adventurous Lectionary for June 23: Questions That Change the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Epperly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lectionary Reflections for the Fifth Sunday in Pentecost – June 23, 2013 I Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a; Psalm 42 and 43; Galatians 3:23-29; Luke 8:26-39 Questions that Change the World “What are you doing here?” God’s question to frightened Elijah addresses us all.  Why have we taken this path?  What events got us into our current situation or life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Adventurous Lectionary: Fourth Sunday After Pentecost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Epperly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost – June 16, 2013 I Kings 21:1-10, 15-21a; Psalm 5:1-8; Galatians 2:15-21; Luke 7:36-8:3 Lively Grace and Difficult Justice  Grace abounds, but grace doesn’t nullify the consequences of our personal or corporate actions.  What we do matters and although grace can change the meaning of the past and awaken us to alternative futures, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing the World with the Eyes of the Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Epperly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking in beauty is the gift of sight and insight. It is grounded in taking a more leisurely pace, even on busy days. One of my spiritual teachers, Gerald May, counseled the following awakening practice:  pause, notice, open, yield and stretch, and then respond]]></description>
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		<title>The Adventurous Lectionary: Pentecost 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 17:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Epperly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/?p=669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s lectionary passages assert that faith opens us to new dimensions of reality and within these new dimensions, miraculous releases of divine energy, congruent with the laws of nature, are released.  ]]></description>
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		<title>The Adventurous Lectionary for June 2, 2013: Truth, Exclusion and Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 17:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Epperly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s lectionary readings are challenging for progressive, postmodern, and pluralistic Christians. They also give pause to those who fashion clear boundaries between in and out, righteous and unrighteous, and saved and unsaved. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Adventurous Lectionary – Trinity Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Epperly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/?p=665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lectionary Reflections on Trinity Sunday – May 26, 2013 Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15 Today’s readings speak of a lively, energizing, relational vision of the Trinity, a far cry from the disembodied, abstract, and irrelevant descriptions found in many theological tomes.  The Trinity, along with the Incarnation and the divine presence in history, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Vision but Not an Agenda: Responding to Elizabeth Scalia’s “Strange Gods”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently accepted the call to be Pastor of South Congregational United Church of Christ in Centerville, Massachusetts. On a hilltop less than a mile from Craigville Beach in mid-Cape Cod, the setting of this historic congregation is just the other side of paradise.  In the course of the search and call process, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Formation as an Adventure in Provocative Propositions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Epperly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/?p=653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a Christian means a lot of things, but a key element in the journey of faith is the exploration of provocative propositions: visions and statements that take us beyond familiar comfort zones to explore wild horizons of spiritual adventure. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Adventurous Lectionary – Pentecost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Epperly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/?p=648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Pentecost, mysticism – and this is a communal as well as individual mysticism – inspires the community to mission. Good news can’t be sequestered or kept to ourselves. Spirit bursts forth. Everyone gets the message.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering Thin Places: Reflections on Frank Viola’s God’s Favorite Place on Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Epperly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using literary license, author Frank Viola boldly asserts that Bethany, the hometown of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus was “God’s favorite place on Earth.”  Bethany was the place where Jesus found rest and companionship. In a world of controversy, Jesus could enjoy a meal, laughter, and normal conversation.  Perhaps, he could let down his guard for [...]]]></description>
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