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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>Welcome back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;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.&#8220; Ahhhh… the relief of no more guilt from neglecting my blog. Okay, maybe I need to start that again on a more compassionate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not the Lent I intended</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repentance redefined: Giving up exhaustion and opening to change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repentance redefined: standing tall</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/02/repentance-redefined-standing-tall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bible stories]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/?p=646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; Not one more day did Jesus want this woman to live bent over.&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repentance redefined: silent no more</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/02/repentance-redefined-silent-no-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[empowerment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day 2:            &#8220;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.&#8221; 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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Messy and connected</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ash Wednesday]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/?p=612</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“M” is for mystery and for mystic</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/01/m-is-for-mystery-and-for-mystic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/?p=600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The more I listened, the more I recognized within myself a deep hunger to be more aware of the Mystery all around me.&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Holy Rant</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/01/a-holy-rant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/?p=592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that most Christians assume that spirituality is a unisex reality? Why have I, in 55 years of church attendance, never heard a sermon on gender differences in spirituality and only one that even acknowledged it as real (thanks Bob C.)? Why is it that in a culture where we talk more and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can darkness be light?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2013/01/how-can-darkness-be-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/?p=571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ &#8221;the night will shine like the day,&#8221; I love Epiphany. … the celebration of light. After the feast of love our family enjoyed this Christmas together, it makes letting go again a little easier. Though many celebrate Epiphany only as a day, I prefer to think of it as a season. I fill my mantle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focusing Self-compassion on Limitations</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2012/12/focusing-self-compassion-on-limitations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/2012/12/focusing-self-compassion-on-limitations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Davis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetdavis/?p=553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I admit it: I’ve not bought a single Christmas gift yet. My husband, God bless him, has ordered a few things.  My guess is that Amazon is going to become my best friend over these next few weeks. My work schedule has been full as well as continuing to make doctor and physical therapy appointments [...]]]></description>
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