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		<title>#Charlottesville and Getting Real</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent some time in the Czech Republic not long after the Wall fell. One day I was sitting in a small park with a statue at its center. The statue showed a Soviet soldier protecting a woman—presumably Czech—from a Nazi. This in graphic form was the story the occupying Soviets had told the Czechs [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On the Suppression of Knowledge</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2017/08/on-the-suppression-of-knowledge/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week a New York Times headline reads “Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Climate Change Report.” The article includes a link to the 693 page report, and can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/climate/document-Draft-of-the-Climate-Science-Special-Report.html The suppression of climate change information has partly to do with politics, partly to do with economics, and partly to do with religion. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>#Epicurus and Atomic Moderation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Working out the implications of what it means that “mind” is a function of the brain is perhaps the greatest challenge—both medically and philosophically—of the twenty-first century. People are working on it. For example, the work of philosopher Martha Nussbaum builds a complex understanding of moral value for naturalists. Her realization that every emotion has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Steal Your Fire, Drink Your Tea</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2017/07/steal-fire-drink-tea/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the late nineteenth and into the twentieth-century a good many Unitarian congregations sponsored Prometheus Clubs. These were forums for dangerous ideas—some new ones, such as quantum mechanics, and some old ones, such as looking at nature as non-dual. Prometheus. Chances are that if you’ve heard of him, you’ve learned that he’s the god eternally punished [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Danger is in Not Being You </title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2017/07/the-danger-is-in-not-being-you/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[simplicity]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a story that has been told in various ways about a rabbi named  Zusya. As Rabbi Zusya was dying, he told his visiting students that he was very afraid. The students were shocked and said, “But rabbi, you have always told us that God is full of love and kindness!” “I’m not afraid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A review of Why God? Explaining Religious Phenomena by Rodney Stark </title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2017/07/review-god-explaining-religious-phenomena-rodney-stark/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before I say anything else, I should say: Read this book. Whether you agree or disagree with the central point, this is a valuable book in the ongoing discussion of religion in the US. What is Stark’s central point? “Only religion can make existence meaningful.” A sociologist of religion, Dr. Stark falls into (or perhaps [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Until the Cows Come Home</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(being a personal summary of the Zen story of the Ten Bulls*) As the youngest, it was my job to find the cattle each evening and bring them back to the barn. The herd might be anywhere across the rolling hills. I’d walk and walk until I found fresh dung or perhaps caught a glimpse [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Loving What Happens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amor fati. The love of (your own) fate. The Stoic philosopher Epictetus appears to have been the first to put this together as a Latin phrase in writing. In Yoruba, it’s called “ayanmo.” The concept has been around—I suspect—as long as humanity has been suffering life’s ill effects. Fate. It’s what happens to you and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Lesson of Sunday School Cards</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2017/06/lesson-sunday-school-cards/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My dad was out of work a lot when I was a kid, so we traveled from town to town in the Southeast. Consequently, I attended all sorts of churches, from strip mall storefronts to white wooden boxes with a steeple on top. The churches were always in the Pentecostal / Apostolic range, which in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Stories We Listen To; the Stories We Tell Ourselves</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/2017/06/stories-listen-stories-tell/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Breeden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our elders teach us things. Sometimes, later, we change our minds about those teachings, sometimes not. Sometimes we take those teachings lightly, only to realize the depth of the wisdom later. My father told a story about the family just up the road. It was the Great Depression, and the farmer and his wife had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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