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		<title>the heart of the matter</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mick]]></dc:creator>
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On Tuesday mornings, I get together with a small group of local church leaders from a range of denominations and theological persuasions to catch up and pray together. As you might expect, much of the conversation is to do with matters ecclesial. I generally find it an encouraging and enriching hour of the week, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Springsteen and the Spirit</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Undoubtedly the highlight of last week for me was Springsteen&#8217;s Sydney concert on Wednesday night. When it comes to live rock shows, he really is without peer.
After rocking out mightily with the E-Street band for the best part of three hours, the Boss closed the set with a couple of solo acoustic numbers. The final [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a bigger life</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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For me, the changeover from one year to another brings a heightened awareness of the passing of time. Much of life is organised around cycles &#8211; the days of the week, the hours of the day, the months of the year, the seasons, and so on. These cycles, along with the repetitive, routine nature of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a poem for advent</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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The Grace and the Impatience to Wait
by Walter Brueggemann (1994)
In our secret yearnings
   we wait for your coming,
   and in our grinding despair
   we doubt that you will.
And in this privileged place
   we are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than we do
   and by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life &#038; faith: The good life</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mick]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I occasionally participate in the Centre for Public Christianity&#8217;s weekly radio program &#8216;Life &#038; Faith&#8217;. Here&#8217;s the first of two recent episodes.

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		<title>We are second and you are first</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mick]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I love this prayer poem by Old Testament scholar and theologian Walter Brueggemann.  It&#8217;s such a grounded yet profound expression of gratitude to God.

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We are second and you are first
Before our well-being, there was your graciousness,
before our delight, there was your generosity,
before our joy, there was your good will.
We are second and you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>this is water</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mick]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Some friends recently drew my attention to this talk by the late David Foster Wallace in 2005. This really is worth 20 minutes of your time.


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		<title>on being human</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 03:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mick]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[This is too good not to share
&#8220;In the trinity, there is no self-interest, no &#8216;individual will,&#8217; but only an enormous movement of painful, ecstatic self-renunciation. This self-renouncing pattern of life is the root of all personal being.
The self-directed autonomous individual, therefore, is a picture not of what it means to be human but of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mick]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I love this take on resurrection by Tripp Fuller

We Get To from The Work Of The People on Vimeo.
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		<title>On adversarialism</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mick]]></dc:creator>
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Sometimes it feels like everybody is at odds with everybody else about everything all the time. A basic culture of adversarialism permeates all parts of human society. From a biblical perspective, we might see this as a consequence of humankind&#8217;s tragically bad call in the Garden of Eden. After disobeying God we see Adam blaming [...]]]></description>
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