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		<title>Bangladesh – Reviving the Call for Slow Fashion.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Peterson offers a wonderful list of suggestions for how churches could promote alternative ways of thinking about clothes, a slow fashion of sorts that is rooted in our faith communities. ]]></description>
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		<title>Storytelling for the health of the church</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/05/02/storytelling-for-the-health-of-the-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Adapted from a script I wrote for a video that IVP made for the Inhabit conference.  My segment didn't get used in the IVP video, but these thoughts are worth sharing here on the blog] &#160; My friends at the Parish Collective often speak of the importance of parishes being rooted and linked. These two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many thanks to our friends who voted for Englewood’s Garden Project…</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/05/01/many-thanks-to-our-friends-who-voted-for-englewoods-garden-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/?p=1301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; If you hadn&#8217;t heard already, Englewood did win a $25,000 grant from State Farm for our garden project!!!!   Huge thanks to everyone who voted for us, we are very grateful for your friendship.  Mike Bowling, pastor of Englewood Christian Church, wrote this little reflection for our congregation&#8217;s May newsletter&#8230; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; We are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergent Church: Lacking “a Focus on Issues of Class”?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/04/30/emergent-church-lacking-a-focus-on-issues-of-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/?p=1298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from the new book: Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude By Joerg Rieger and Kwok Pui-lan Hardback: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. Page 122. Buy now:  [ Amazon ]  [ Kindle ] HT: Ric Hudgens for pointing out this passage (Ric is working on a review of this book for The Englewood Review of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAST DAY to help Englewood win $25K to complete our gardens!</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/04/22/last-day-to-help-englewood-win-25k-to-complete-our-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/?p=1294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; (John and I were both at the Inhabit conference over the weekend; it was wonderful as always and we will get some reflections on that posted later this week.) TODAY is the last day to vote for the Englewood Neighborhood on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis (where I live, work and worship), in its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help The Englewood Neighborhood win $25,000 to finish our Outdoor Nature Playspace!</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/04/04/help-the-englewood-neighborhood-win-25000-to-finish-our-outdoor-nature-playspace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/?p=1283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting today, the Englewood Neighborhood on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis (where I live, work and worship), is in the running for a $25,000 grant Neighborhood Assist Grant from State Farm. If we would win, the money would be used to turn our community garden and the adjacent lot into a playspace and Nature education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Saturday and Unanswered Questions</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/03/29/1275/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Pattison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne Marie Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enuma Okoro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Boyett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Paul Turner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Relevant Magazine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/?p=1275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Author's Note: A couple years ago I was asked to contribute to an article for Relevant Magazine about "five things we wish our pastors knew." Other contributors included Anne Marie Miller, Enuma Okoro, Matthew Paul Turner, and Jason Boyett. I wrote my piece as a kind of open letter to our church's new pastor. I'm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciled Diversity: Or, Why I Go to the Inhabit Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/03/27/reconciled-diversity-or-why-i-go-to-the-inhabit-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Pattison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Growth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/?p=1266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Update: Make sure to check out Coté Soerens's response to this post. She brings up some important points: "Yet, we are a long ways to go in the task of breaking long-held barriers to diversity and dialogue between communities in the US...The forces behind homogeneity in our church communities, such as discrimination, privilege, and inequality, demand holistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shusaku Endo’s “Silence”</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/03/27/shusaku-endos-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/03/27/shusaku-endos-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Pattison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Besides the Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shusaku Endo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/?p=1263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Today is the birthday of the great Japanese Catholic novelist Shusaku Endo. To mark the occasion, we're posting an essay John wrote for Besides the Bible: 100 Books that Have, Should, or Will Create Christian Culture (IVP, 2010) about Endo's powerful novel, Silence. The director Martin Scorsese has said he hopes to start production on a film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation Script: Search for Meaning Book Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/03/24/presentation-script-search-for-meaning-book-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2013/03/24/presentation-script-search-for-meaning-book-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Pattison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search for Meaning Book Festival]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/?p=1249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author&#8217;s Note: I recently had the opportunity to speak at Seattle University&#8217;s annual Search for Meaning Book Festival. The presentation, a general overview of Slow Church, went very well. A couple folks asked for copies of my presentation script. I only had one hard copy to give, which is one reason why I&#8217;m posting it [...]]]></description>
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