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		<title>What To Do When You Are Unceremoniously Insulted</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am re-posting a piece I wrote almost five years ago, because, despite the passage of time, the painful experience of being insulted or affronted continues to crop up and there is no easy, nor (often) blameless way to navigate these difficult interludes. The only revision I bring to these reflections is when, five years [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>That Time Billy Graham Saved My Faith</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Wendy Murray Shortly after my (spontaneous) conversion at the age of 16, I went on a youth convention to Dallas, Texas called Explo 72,  where, for the first time, I heard Billy Graham speak. But more than that, it is where I learned that the enthusiasms of my newly-animated spiritual awakening would, in due [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Remembering Mister Rogers and the Light He Left</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Wendy Murray Fred “Mister” Rogers died 15 years ago this month. I always think of him in February as the dregs of winter cloak me in discouragement. Thoughts of him bring light and hope. I miss him and I dare say the world misses him. He was a light amid darkness and in his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christmas Magic, Actually</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Wendy Murray Once I pondered if I believed in “Christmas magic.” My primary impulse had been to scoff at the idea. But then a memory arose. I saw colored Christmas lights draped over gabled roofs of stately houses. I was seeing them from a car window as we drove along in the dark. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mary Rejoicing, Rachel Weeping</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Wendy Murray A disastrous event that took place in Bethlehem related to Jesus’ birth that is also part of the picture of Christmas. Herod ordered the slaughter of all the boys two years old and under. Yet we tend to allow sleigh bells, evergreens, and shopping trips to push it out of view. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joseph, God&#8217;s Ordinary Man</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the magic of the Christmas story, let’s not forget the one who paid the bills by Wendy Murray In the rush and sentimentality of Christmas, the seeming ubiquitous chorus “ `round yon virgin, Mother and Child” makes it is easy to forget that two individuals became parents of the Son of God that improbable [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christmas: From Jesus&#8217; Birth to Santa ~ But How?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Where Did “Christmas” Come From? Christmas is typically associated with the birth of Jesus, a Jew born in Bethlehem over 2000 years ago. I think we can all agree that the way the holiday is celebrated today carries little resemblance to a barn with animals and hay for a bed. There is an interesting, if [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Mayflower Compact, Harsh Though It Was, Helped the Struggling Pilgrims Survive</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 13:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving approaches and we ponder giving thanks, it seems an appropriate time to reflect upon those forebears who put their lives on the line (and among whom many lives were lost), in order to stake a claim for religious freedom and govern by mutual covenant. These sojourners at the Plimouth Colony, known also as the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Catholic Who Paved the Way for Martin Luther&#8217;s Reform</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wendymurray/2017/10/the-catholic-who-paved-the-way-for-martin-luthers-reform/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three centuries before Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the church door at Wittenberg, Francis of Assisi had already rocked the Roman Church with radical, controversial and irrepressible reform. Whereas Luther brought to the foreground the concept of justification by grace through faith in contradistinction to the corrupt practices of the Catholic Church of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Does a Girl Stop Missing Her Father?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wendymurray/2017/10/when-does-a-girl-stop-missing-her-father/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Murray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2017 21:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My father died 22 years ago on this day. I am within 10 years of the age at which my father died and I think of him still, and miss him as if I were still 14 and he was helping me with my math. I hated it when he helped me with my math. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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