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	<title>The View from Dixon Hall</title>
	
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		<title>It ain’t that deep: What we learned from Joe and Mika’s blow up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone watching MSNBC’s Morning Joe, this morning could sense something just wasn’t right. To the casual observer, all might have appeared well, but to those of us Morning Joe fanatics, we knew that the overt politeness, the lack of teasing, and the somber tone were indicative of something else: the uncomfortable aftermath of a family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unchecked: Why you should vote for Obama and why I won’t</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mariadixonhall/?p=53</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a daughter of the American South. My family story is like many African American families who chose to stay in the South rather than head to the North or the West in the Great Migration. Settling near the very plantations where they were slaves, we were a family of preachers, teachers, pullman porters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me, Myself, and I: Sorting through the issues of Campaign 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mariadixonhall/2012/10/me-myself-and-i-sorting-through-the-issues-of-campaign-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For four years, I have been in a silent war. While not fought with ‘horses and bayonets” or aircraft carriers filled with drones, the battle has been fierce and unrelenting. Though occasionally the evidence of its existence would emerge from time to time on a Facebook rant or in an office conversation with a colleague; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like a good neighbor…..</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mariadixonhall/2012/07/like-a-good-neighbor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 02:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mariadixonhall/?p=39</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew something was wrong in the way that he said my name. “Honey,” he said, “did you hear about a stabbing in Highland Park?” I said, yes I had but the news didn’t share anything other than the fact that the husband was dead and that the wife was in the hospital. “Maria, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe it was the Chili Dog…..</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mariadixonhall/2012/06/maybe-it-was-the-chili-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Sunday morning had been great so far. I had just returned from preaching at one of my favorite churches, Warren Chapel UMC and was sitting down to a Father’s Day lunch with my husband Jeff. As we each opened our class A healthy meal of Chili Dogs and Tater tots from Sonic and our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shut the… Front Door!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few times in my life when I am literally at a loss for words (and these usually involved a loss by my beloved Alabama Crimson Tide&#8211;hence, why it is few and far between for me to be silent). Yet on Tuesday evening in the Plano Center at the conclusion of the North Texas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Advice from the Master Gardener…..</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mariadixonhall/2012/05/some-advice-from-the-master-gardener/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 09:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in an attempt to get some distance between me and the traumatic event now forever etched in my brain as—General Conference 2012, I decided to brave the Texas heat and work on my flowerbeds and ideas for the lawn. Isisas Barrario, my faithful landscape and lawn man for over 8 years, stood by me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Jesus wept…</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mariadixonhall/2012/05/and-jesus-wept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 05:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t like crying. I hate it. Other than sex, it is one of those things that no one and I mean no one looks good actually doing (forget that Hollywood stuff). So when I found myself standing in the Plenary Hall of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church, weeping uncontrollably, I knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All but the shouting…</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mariadixonhall/2012/05/all-but-the-shouting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the Methodist Armageddon came and went by 12:30pm EST. The world didn&#8217;t end; the earth didn&#8217;t rattle; nor did Jesus come back (which would have been great all things considered but I think given the state of General Conference 2012, he wouldn&#8217;t have been given credentials to be seated anyway). By 12:33, every one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Games we play….</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mariadixonhall/2012/05/the-games-we-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 19:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone stopped me today in the Convention Center to ask me what I did for a living. I explained, “ I study organizations, their communication, and how they work.” The questioner just shook his head and said, “Boy I bet the last three days have really given you something to write about.” To that all [...]]]></description>
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