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		<title>Conversational Bodies.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To be created in the image of the triune God is to exist as a conversation. God, as trinity, exists as three “persons” in an eternal conversation with one another: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, listening and responding, giving and receiving with one another.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Hopeful Politics of &#8220;Everyday Attentive Reciprocity&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2016/12/01/hopeful-politics-everyday-attentive/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["We think that it is most vitally in and through concrete practices of tending to one another that people find the sources of renewal and sustenance for a life-affirming politics." - Stanley Hauerwas &#038; Romand Coles]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Politics of Hope in the Trump Age</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last week, I've been reflecting on how we can find hope in these anxious times. Our hope of a different -- and better -- sort of politics begins in our local churches. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Open Apology to Chris Rock.</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2016/03/03/an-open-apology-to-chris-rock/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That’s how it works for me. As a white male, I can hear the complaints, the cries of someone not in a position of power and privilege and decide whether to “take up the cause” or summarily dismiss it. I can dismiss you. On Sunday night, I wanted to dismiss you. And I am not sure there’s a worse thing one person can do to another.
I am sorry.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deeper into Your Love and Compassion &#8211; A Slow Church Benediction.</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2015/06/10/deeper-into-your-love-and-compassion-a-slow-church-benediction/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lord God,

Giver of all gifts, who loves and abundantly sustains the whole of your creation.

We come humbly before you, with gratitude for all you have given us in our churches and in our neighborhoods. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Indiana&#8217;s New RFRA Bill Hits Home on Indy&#8217;s Near Eastside</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2015/03/28/indianas-new-rfra-bill-hits-home-on-indys-near-eastside/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2015 03:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An article broke in the Indianapolis Star this afternoon, announcing that in response to Indiana's newly signed RFRA bill, major corporation Angie's List would be cancelling plans for an expansion to their campus on Indianapolis's Near Eastside.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Looking for Enemies</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2015/03/18/looking-for-enemies/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Pattison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The March 2015 issue of Charisma magazine includes an article entitled “Here’s How the New Christian Left is Twisting the Gospel.” Now, I’m not familiar enough with Charisma‘s digital reach to say whether or not this article went “viral,” but I can tell you that the online version has been shared 676,000 times over the last nine [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Scot McKnight &#8211; A Fellowship of Differents [Patheos Book Club]</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2015/03/11/scot-mcknight-fellowship-of-differents-patheos-book-club/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you have read Slow Church, and want another book that makes a similar theological case, and one that is wisely attentive to biblical scholarship, A Fellowship of Differents is your book.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ragan Sutterfield &#8211; This is my Body [Patheos Book Club]</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2015/02/25/ragan-sutterfield-this-is-my-body-patheos-book-club/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sutterfield’s journey, as chronicled in This is My Body, is a poignant reminder that though the way will be grueling, there is a deep joy in the health we experience in thoughtfully and faithfully caring for our bodies.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Two Slow Church-related ebooks on sale now!</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2015/02/23/two-slow-church-related-ebooks-on-sale-now/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Download these Slow-Church related ebooks now...
Franchising McChurch (FREE!) and
Kingdom Calling by Amy Sherman ($2.99)]]></description>
		
		
		
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