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	<itunes:summary>Conversations between Christian friends.  Brought to you by The Burnside Writer's Collective.  Jordan Green serves as senior editor of the Burnside Writers Collective. 
Aaron Donley serves as humor editor for the Burnside Writers Collective

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		<title>But Then Elijah</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Downs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn't sure what to say. I told him that I needed to go in to see a friend and that maybe we could talk on my way out. I don't know why I said it. But I did and I thought nothing more of it. ]]></description>
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		<title>My Mother-in-Law’s Garage</title>
		<link>http://burnsidewriters.com/2013/05/20/my-mother-in-laws-garage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley J. Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who can fault an invalid? What kind of person would rage at a woman who physically has nothing left in her life? ]]></description>
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		<title>The Day of First Fruits: Ripening (A Poem for Pentecost)</title>
		<link>http://burnsidewriters.com/2013/05/19/the-day-of-first-fruits-ripening-a-poem-for-pentecost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Kay Mooney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[tongues of fire on their heads,
glimmering banners of love –
tongues afire in their mouths,
burning through the brush]]></description>
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		<title>Courage</title>
		<link>http://burnsidewriters.com/2013/05/18/courage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Morford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s more than the cowardly lion from the Wizard of Oz
It’s more than doing what everyone else does
It’s more than putting on a uniform.
Courage is our name]]></description>
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		<title>Drone Zone</title>
		<link>http://burnsidewriters.com/2013/05/15/drone-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simulation culture not only permeates our professional and personal lives but influences our spiritual lives as well.]]></description>
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		<title>Of Teeth, Nails, and Other Things That Fall Out</title>
		<link>http://burnsidewriters.com/2013/05/14/of-teeth-nails-and-other-things-that-fall-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Easton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On <em>Tooth &#038; Nail</em>, even as Billy Bragg exhorts us to organize, he seems exhausted.]]></description>
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		<title>The Grand Mother</title>
		<link>http://burnsidewriters.com/2013/05/13/the-grand-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carole Smith Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We want to rescue all of the hurting kids in the world, and I don't think there is anything wrong with feeling that or that motivating us to do SOMETHING. But is our heart big enough to consider that adoption is not what's always best for them?]]></description>
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		<title>Genesis: Poems in the Midrash Tradition</title>
		<link>http://burnsidewriters.com/2013/05/12/genesis-poems-in-the-midrash-tradition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Doll Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being Creator Himself, 
He knew something of the task. 
Raising nothing into something was not without labor. ]]></description>
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		<title>At David’s Wedding</title>
		<link>http://burnsidewriters.com/2013/05/11/at-davids-wedding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 12:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Schreck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the honeysuckle are trumpets
announcing your arrival
at the altar you built]]></description>
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		<title>Dumpster Diving</title>
		<link>http://burnsidewriters.com/2013/05/08/dumpster-diving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Stenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeling rejected I began to question how risky it was to be carefree. ]]></description>
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