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		<title>Lent Never Stopped</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lent never stopped because no one was raised from the dead and we didn’t make a thousand visitors’ bags, feeling hopeful that this Easter’s crowd would finally stick around, because there was no hallelujah as we looked into our phones to see fellow refugees in their pajamas every Sunday, not knowing whether we will ever [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Intuition and the Garden of Eden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 21:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent much of the pandemic contemplating the meaning of the biblical Garden of Eden story that instills the mythological framework for Western Christian epistemology. Do we trust our bodies to tell us intuitively the truth about our world or are we supposed to submit our innately flawed personal intuitive experience to the orthodoxies of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Continuous Gaslighting Of An Autistic Mind</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m needing to get out some feelings and thoughts about my experience as an autistic. I was at a virtual Christian gathering this past weekend that had a high percentage of autistic and queer participants. It was a really beautiful, grounding experience even though it happened online. I don’t know how to explain this but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why I Still Call Myself A Christian</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I continue to call myself a Christian for two reasons: 1) because my mother is still alive and 2) because I believe I am anointed by God for good works not as a reward for believing anything correctly but as a gift discovered more fully the more I fully renounce proving myself to be right.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Fools: A Group Proposal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 02:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We could be called The Fools, because we speak with the freedom of those who have been crucified enough by life to have no public reputation left to defend. Which means we are no longer trying to hide our real selves. We lack the calculated poise of people who are still trying not to fail. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Does The Knowledge of Good And Evil Make Humanity Fall?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1 Corinthians 2:15]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Very few interpreters of the Garden of Eden story in Genesis 3 pay any attention to the identity of the fruit that supposedly corrupted humanity forever. In fact, the fruit is often labeled simply the forbidden fruit as though its actual identity has no significance. The mainstream interpretation of the story at least in western [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On Getting Banned From A White Queer Christian Discord For Attacking Augustine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well I just got banned from a white queer Christian discord space for attacking Augustine’s doctrine of original sin, which is such a bizarre thing to me that I needed to blog about it. I also got my feelings hurt a little bit. I think it was mostly because I was behaving like an unmasked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On Being A Christian Pagan Mystic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 15:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was in my early twenties, I called myself a Christian pagan, a memory which later made me cringe with complete embarrassment in my neoorthodox thirties. In college, I had discovered Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, art, and madness, as well as Hekate, the pre-Olympian goddess of witchcraft. Somehow I stumbled upon a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why I Am Probably Leaving United Methodism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[Update: Read the first comment. I think it gets at the heart of what I’ve been missing in my understanding of God as Trinity.] I have been largely dormant on my blog over the past year of pandemic largely because of the post I am about to write that I have been dragging my heels [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>My Messiah</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Guyton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 21:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My messiah is exactly the kind of man you’d expect without a human Y chromosome: offensively delightful; utterly gorgeous when he’s angry; a carpenter’s hands with fingers soft enough to open eyes that were blind from birth; every movement of his muscles a dance in which he retunes the wavelengths of the energy around him [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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