<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257199530888032560</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:01:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Inklings of God</title><description></description><link>http://inklingsofgod.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Kurt Bruner)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><language>en-us</language><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="http://www.inklingsofgod.com/files/ourpics/inklingscover.jpg"/><itunes:keywords>Inklings,Lewis,Tolkien,Bruner,Narnia,Lord,of,the,Rings,Spiritual,Formation,Movies,God,Religion,Christianity,Dallas,Lake,Pointe,Mosaic,Mars,Hill,C,S,Lewis</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>In the spirit of Oxford Inklings C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, this podcast explores spiritual themes bubbling up in human creativity, religion and relationships.  Hosted by Kurt Bruner, spiritual formation pastor and author.   </itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>Taking A Closer Look</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"><itunes:category text="Christianity"/></itunes:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>kurt@inklingsofgod.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257199530888032560.post-1028327557399234224</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-01-09T11:48:02.088-08:00</atom:updated><title>Fatherless Review</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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Authors Kurt Bruner and Dr. James Dobson discuss their new &lt;a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?sx04nn3o2gx652c"&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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