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		<title>My Best Reads from 2017</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2017 23:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post for you bibliophiles out there. I read a lot of books every year. This year, in no particular order, here are some that really stood out. A number of them are not new books. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green I have struggled with OCD at least since my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A New Normal: Grief and Facing the Brokenness in Evangelicalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hannah Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My heart has ached and almost broken as I have seen leaders I admired again and again and again show they have no godly judgment, that they can excuse evil whenever it is convenient for their politics, which reign supreme.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Interview with the Christian and Atheist Friends Who Host the Podcast ASSUMPTIONS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Florence Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assumptions podcast]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Melvill Jones]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Polarization]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote about Daniel Melvill Jones and Kyle Marshall’s podcast, Assumptions, previously here. The constructive dialogue these two good friends have achieved in their discussions resonates with me as someone who also aspires to communicate respectfully with people who are different from me. In my writing here on the blog, and in discussions below posts, I’ve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Our Response to Sexual Abuse Should Not Be a Partisan Sport</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Florence Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sexual abuse. I’m tired of it all. I’m tired of the rampant disrespect shown to women in this society.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>#Loser: How the Call of Christ Is Antithetical to Trump&#8217;s Gospel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Florence Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The cross]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump’s Gospel is as follows: success means being dominant over everyone else, at all cost; the only true happiness in life is being able to be a winner, not a #loser. What Trump Values To tell what a person values, we must see what he treats with disgust. And over and over again, President [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Conflict and Challenge, instead of Cheap Grace</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Florence Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Don’t hate,” the Facebook commenter said to me after I stated a position about a current event. I hadn’t said anything hateful. I had said something challenging. It isn’t the first time I’ve heard this kind of response. While the right wing (along with certain progressives like President Obama) rightly criticizes the fragility on college [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OCD, Stephen King&#8217;s IT, and Facing Our Fear</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Florence Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Exposure Therapy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[OCD and Fear I have struggled with bouts of OCD since my teenage years. When I first began to experience intrusive thoughts, terrified, I tried to run from them. To relieve the anxiety, I engaged in compulsions, repetitive activities that feel like control without actually being control. And so I purged my belongings, obsessively washed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What My LGBT Neighbors Teach Me</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rebeccaflorencemiller/2017/10/lgbt-neighbors-teach/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Florence Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2017 17:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual ethics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[    I want to talk about something that has been on my heart for a while now. Christian friends, we need another way forward. It’s time all of us take a deep look inside and note how our community and even we individually have ravaged, traumatized, abused, and deeply wounded the LGBT community. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;No Fair!&#8221;: A God Who Longs to Show Mercy&#8211;To Illegal Immigrants, ISIS, and You and Me</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rebeccaflorencemiller/2017/09/no-fair-god-mercy-illegal-immigrants-isis/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Florence Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 01:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[DACA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mercy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Bible passages for today can be found here. This week, I heard a story on NPR of a little baby, born in the United States to now-undocumented parents who had overstayed their visas in the US: “When 2-month-old Isaac Enrique Sanchez was diagnosed with pyloric stenosis, a condition that causes vomiting, dehydration and weight [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christian Superiority Complexes and the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Florence Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lectionary Message]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matthew 18:21-35]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We don’t think we need the mercy of God. We don’t think we need the mercy of other people.]]></description>
		
		
		
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