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	<description>Steve Knight Curates the Missional Conversation</description>
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		<title>April Is Officially Missional Church Conference Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is no April Fool&#8217;s joke: Just about wherever you live in the U.S., there&#8217;s a missional church conference near you this month! What&#8217;s all the hub-bub about? As I&#8217;ve written before, I believe the missional shift is one of the most significant aspects of the emergence within Christianity taking place, which Phyllis Tickle has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TransFORM Southwest Is Happening April 5-6 in Fort Worth, Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m grateful to Brian McLaren for putting out the invitation on his blog yesterday to TransFORM Southwest: Have you ever thought about starting a new faith community? Or &#8230; linking up with others who are doing innovative things in local congregations? You should know about the TransFORM Network. TransFORM Southwest will gather April 5-6 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is This The Link Between Mission and Liturgy/Worship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/?p=1999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Catholic missiologist John C. Sivalon in his book God&#8217;s Mission and Postmodern Culture: &#8220;We are called to open our hearts to participate in God&#8217;s mission through the language of liturgy and worship.&#8221; What do you think?]]></description>
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		<title>Who ISN’T Missional?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/?p=1982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Jones has a great reflection on his blog today about labels such as &#8220;neo-Reformed,&#8221; &#8220;Emergent,&#8221; and &#8220;missional.&#8221; It comes in response to the intriguing &#8220;Why This Book?&#8221; video put out by David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw to promote their new book Prodigal Christianity: 10 Signposts into the Missional Frontier. Tony writes, &#8220;[Missional]&#8216;s a term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Metric for Missional Engagement: Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/?p=1973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Larson penned the musical Rent in 1994. One of the play&#8217;s theme songs is &#8220;Seasons of Love.&#8221; Of course, it&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day today, so someone posted this video, and I was struck by the message of this song all over again: Five hundred twenty-five thousand Six hundred minutes How do you measure, measure a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Is Fasting for Lent Missional?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2013/02/how-is-fasting-for-lent-missional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/?p=1969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Turner is inviting you to sign up for his email newsletter in exchange for a PDF download of his 2013 Everyday Liturgy Lenten Guide. I did it! It&#8217;s a resource worth checking out and having on hand. Also, Chris Smith from the Slow Church blog has a great article over at The Good Men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Out The Front Door!</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2012/12/get-out-the-front-door/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/?p=1052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Urbana (traditional) missions conference starts tomorrow in St. Louis, but several months ago, Dave Zimmerman, editor at InterVarsity Press, wrote an excellent article reflecting on calling and the interesting turn of a phrase from an Urbana promo video. The phrase in question was, &#8220;I came to get my foot out the door.&#8221; Where you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading the Bible Slowly in Missional Community</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2012/12/reading-the-bible-slowly-in-missional-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this new &#8220;Postmodern Negro&#8221; video for Sogo Media, Anthony Smith talks about the experience of his missional community in Salisbury, NC, called Mission House and something they&#8217;re calling &#8220;Bible Lab,&#8221; reading through the Bible together slowly and discerning in community what to draw from the text: This also happens to be a non-traditional Advent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Wants to Spend 4 Hours Watching Reggie McNeal Talk About the Missional Church?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2012/12/who-wants-to-spend-4-hours-watching-reggie-mcneal-talk-about-the-missional-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do! And probably a lot more of you out there, as well. Well, we&#8217;re in luck, because the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church recently hosted Reggie McNeal for a seminar on his book Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard of the Church. The almost four-hour presentation was recorded on video and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenge and Promise of Advent</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2012/12/the-challenge-and-promise-of-advent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Knight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/?p=1922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[‎From Ted Jennings, author of Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross: &#8220;What we do is pretend that we have hope and joy and love. What we yearn for is what stands under those names &#8230; Advent is a time when we have a chance &#8212; if we want to take the chance &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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