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		<title>Three Conversations (in honor of Eastertide)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There will be ashes at the first, she said
that clear and cool Ash Wednesday afternoon.
There will be ashes. but then at the end
you will receive a crown of beauty. Wait.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Beth Felker Jones is Protestant</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Wesley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women clergy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am wrestling with the fact that I am wrestling with this book. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Showgirl Report</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taylor Swift]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A lot of the album discourse has centered around the relationship of joy, misery, and art. The video shows people making art out of joy. It's a lot harder to pull off in a fallen world, but it's possible.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Social Contract</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Good]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this broken time when so much is rent asunder, it felt radical to trust, but also somehow necessary.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Come Labor On</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 01:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Good]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Day]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[All work, whether done wearing a tie behind a desk, overalls in the repair pit of an auto shop, blue jeans on a construction site or casual wear in a classroom, contributes to the common good. All labor is noble. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not Nearly So Much Like a Mall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 02:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Good]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common good]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the things about being an old person on Instagram is that you run into a lot of people who are a lot younger than you who have developed a great love for the 1980s - during which they were not alive, but you were.]]></description>
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m Still Here</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back with your regularly scheduled faith and work snark, theology, poetry, and Tolkien content shortly.]]></description>
		
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		<title>As Always, Joy to the Work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[curse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily work]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Final Rings of Power Reviews I Wrote During Season 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rings of Power]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The rest of my reviews of Rings of Power Season 2.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Yet More Rings of Power Reviews I Wrote During Season 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Woodruff Tait]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rings of Power]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yes, yet more reviews of Rings of Power Season 2.]]></description>
		
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