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		<title>A Bad Day for Theocracy  (14 May 2013, marriage equality Minnesota)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Breeden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bad day for creeds; a bad day for stares; a bad day for blind obedience to blundering oracles, as Henry put it long ago. A bad day for obedience. A bad day for “act like us.” Why not, Ralph asked, long ago, why not behold god and nature face to face with our own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Ungar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/?p=1637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend recently shared an article that complained about dog lovers foisting their animals on the non-dog-loving public. Although I am a ridiculously passionate dog lover, I have to say I agree. People who don’t want to deal with dogs shouldn’t have to be approached by them. Also people shouldn’t have to worry about their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Deanna Vandiver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/?p=1619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Standing in the doorway between the ticket table and the concert last night, the music from the incredible jazz trio on the chancel washing over me, I was overwhelmed with gratitude. This is my life! Somewhere between scheduling the termite treatments and the ceiling repairs from a leaky roof, between taxes and budgets, between making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Decides What Is “Value-Added?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Heather Rion Starr</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/?p=1587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For whatever reasons having to do with time but also interest, I am the one in our family who sits down and pays the bills. I like doing it. I get a feeling of satisfaction from being able to pay the bills, a sense of security and peace of mind, however ephemeral, that we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Former Member Asks the Minister for a Favor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Breeden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/?p=1578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She says her family shuns her. She says it has something to do with God. She says the cancer has gone way too far. She says when her brother died the family pastor said he went straight to hell and “Let that be a lesson.” She says, &#8220;Will you do my funeral?&#8221; A light rain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Mother’s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 20:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Ungar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/?p=1598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What will you be doing for Mother’s Day? I confess it’s never been a big deal in my family, either with my mom or as a mom. Somehow, we just never got on the breakfast in bed, flowers, greeting card bandwagon. I don’t know why. It’s not that I don’t think mothers deserve to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prayers for the Possible</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2013/05/prayers-for-the-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 13:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Deanna Vandiver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1854, Rev. Theodore Parker prayed: “Help us to grow stronger and nobler by this world&#8217;s varying good and ill, and while we enlarge the quantity of our being by continual life, may we improve its kind and quality not less, and become fairer, and tenderer, and heavenlier too, as we leave behind us the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“You’re Keeping That?”</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2013/05/youre-keeping-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Heather Rion Starr</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/?p=1559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While nursing lately, I&#8217;ve been watching the sun move across the dusty piano. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to dust that, the moment I get up,&#8221; I think, and then promptly forget, again. But I&#8217;ve also been wondering if that&#8217;s exactly why spring motivates us to some version of cleaning-tending-sorting-purging-reclaiming of space in our lives&#8212;is it simply because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Softballing with Spinoza</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2013/05/softballing-with-spinoza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Breeden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/?p=1555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If a triangle could speak, it would say . . . that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. Thus each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped. ~ Baruch Spinoza I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For You Were a Stranger in Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many biblical passages calling people to offer hospitality to the stranger. Here is one from the 19th chapter of the book of Leviticus: When strangers sojourn with you in your land, you shall do them no wrong, the strangers who sojourn with you shall be to you as natives among you, and you [...]]]></description>
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