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		<title>EFM</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Education for Ministry(EFM) is an ecumenical program developed and run by the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.  It&#8217;s run in hundreds of Episcopal parishes throughout the country but is essentially ecumenical in nature, involving many from other denominations.  It&#8217;s aim is to assist lay people to &#8220;dig deeper into the Christian faith, studying [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>That’s so Memphis</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Mayor Pro Tem Lowery
Ex-Mayor Herenton<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Hunger</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=368</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A letter to the editor in today&#8217;s New York Times:
[...]
Fortunately, because federal courts have ruled that denying food constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” barred by the Constitution, prisoners in the United States have a constitutional right to food that can be enforced by courts.
No such constitutional right to food, however, exists for law-abiding citizens. In [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Backyard moment</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=356</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Starbucks lamentation</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=350</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Is there ever a year
when our lives pause long
enough to take stock and let
our spirits catch
up with the changes being wrought
by the passage of time
It is cliche to engage in
lamentations around the
inexorable approach of the
end but it comes anyway
so you have to face it
sooner or later
Sitting in Starbucks I look
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		<title>Closest to Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Youngest in body
Wisest in spirit
Sharpest of mind
Wittiest in thought
Farthest from God
Closest to Knowing
Purest in life
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		<title>Declining Religiosity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return. But after the humiliations of the Scopes trial and the repeal of Prohibition, it did take a good four decades for the religious right to begin its comeback in the 1970s. In our tough times, when any happy [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Field</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=338</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[He&#8217;s slogging through the mud
Carrying 85 pounds and the burdens
Of a life lived ungraciously
But with intense bravery.
God smiles with pride for his
All-too-human offspring.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=334</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We still aren&#8217;t learning.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>God leapt</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=333</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spirit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[He called the other night to tell of his mastery of soldiering
&#8220;It&#8217;s a piece of cake,&#8221; he says wiping the tear gas out of his eye that
sent him to the hospital before he had even graduated from boot camp.
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		<title>Passing gas</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=332</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spirit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Oh, please.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Crossing the line</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=330</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spirit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Once again, the Republicans are lying.&#160; This time, they are crossing the line to unadulterated racism.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Would you do it?</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=329</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Maybe the job is starting to look less appealing.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Reality Check</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=326</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spirit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s clear from the historical record that what the candidates say or don&#8217;t say during a campaign has little to do with the political realities that confront them when they enter the White House.Â  Consequently, the biggest danger that Obama faces is not losing the election, which he seems to have sown up, but losing [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>On the side of the hill</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~spirit/?p=325</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spirit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There on the side of the hill he waits.
There, he waits with a promise of redemption.
There, he builds a watchtower, vigilant for those
who are thirsty for sustenance.
There, on the side of the hill, a symphonic caress
spreads fertile joy to delicate blossoms.
There, we tend his vineyards, growing the pure fruit of our faithfulness,
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