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	<title>Women, Wisdom, and the Word</title>
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	<description>Finding Ourselves in the Stories of Women in Scripture</description>
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		<title>Looking for the Living</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of being a part of an ordination service a few weeks ago at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston.   It was a lovely space and a wonderful service. Walking in, a friend and I commented on how you could smell the history of this place… the beautiful aged wood and generations of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Being prayer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“But, for me, in that moment, on that particular evening, the words simply would not come” As a spiritual director, you might expect that I spend a fair amount of time thinking about prayer, talking about prayer, and actually praying. Lately I’ve been reflecting on how varied my experiences of prayer have been throughout my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Re-imagining the Trinity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 21:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ “She referenced the Trinity as Life-giver, Pain-bearer, and Love maker.” Last Sunday was “Trinity Sunday” in the Episcopal church.  I’m not quite sure why this doctrine gets its own Sunday. Perhaps it is because it inspired jolly old St. Nicholas to punch another guy in the nose.  I have never felt particularly connected to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Welcome back</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/05/welcome-back/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limitations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[woman with the hemorrhage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“When God invites me to give voice to something like the importance of self-compassion and self-care, it seems that an integral part of that giving voice is to live what I speak.“ Ahhhh… the relief of no more guilt from neglecting my blog. Okay, maybe I need to start that again on a more compassionate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Not the Lent I intended</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/03/not-the-lent-i-intended/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some years, we elect our Lenten discipline, thoughtfully chosen to strategically open or soften parts of our hearts that feel more like stone than like flesh. This year my heart got a different kind of  journey than I had plotted. The Lent I had planned included a series of 40 reflections, 31 already thought through [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Repentance redefined: Giving up exhaustion and opening to change</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/02/repentance-redefined-giving-up-exhaustion-and-opening-to-change/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lent]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Day 4: Repentance redefined: Giving up exhaustion and opening to change “exhaustion was not fertile soil for growth and change” We had been meeting for about two years when my directee said to me: “You know the most helpful thing you’ve said to me since we’ve been meeting is “God is not in favor of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Repentance redefined: standing tall</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/02/repentance-redefined-standing-tall/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[” Not one more day did Jesus want this woman to live bent over.” As I was completing work on my third book, My Own Worst Enemy,  I encountered the story of the woman bent over. Listening once more to this Jesus-initiated, compassion-driven, Sabbath day healing of a woman bent over for 18 years, I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Repentance redefined: silent no more</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[empowerment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hannah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repentance]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Day 2:            “The pattern of Hannah’s spiritual growth echoes that of many, many other women in Scripture: growth toward a larger sense of voice and personhood rather than silence.” I grew up in a faith tradition that believed women were to be seen and not heard in the church and, for most part, at home, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Messy and connected</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[feminine spirituality]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“If I don’t know how to connect in my mess, I miss a lot of loving. “ It is an odd moment to be a favorite. But it’s mine. My favorite liturgical moment of the church year happens today, Ash Wednesday, in the middle of the service. It is the moment when I exchange the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“M” is for mystery and for mystic</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/01/m-is-for-mystery-and-for-mystic/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[voice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anna]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The more I listened, the more I recognized within myself a deep hunger to be more aware of the Mystery all around me.” I don’t know why it is that when I attempt to meditate, my mind resorts to Dr. Seuss. It has been more than 30 years since I was first read Dr. Seuss’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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