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		<title>Preach this, or else</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[if your pastor doesn't]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Loren Richmond observes: “I roll my eyes every time I see a ‘if your pastor doesn’t condemn… leave your church’ posts. What a good pastor does—not an influencer or hot take jockey—but what a good pastor does is preach the gospel and trust that the Spirit will guide into all truth. If we truly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are you writing Books?  Don&#8217;t do this.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book subtitles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book titles]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[For my friends who are writers: Don’t let publishers push you into titles for your books that you dislike. I let this happen to me twice. I felt that I did not have the leverage to resist them, and perhaps I didn’t. But I do wish that I had pushed even harder than I did. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>God with us</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[testimony]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it: I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What if I don&#8217;t feel Christmassy?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmastide]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of my friends lost a beautiful niece just at a tender age and in the run-up to Christmas.  A few days ago he posted, “Christmas is just 3 days away &#38; I ain’t ever felt less Christmassy in my entire life.” Another friend in a lighter mode, but not all that happy about the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Stand-in for Faith in Hard Times</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Mt 11:2-3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Merton]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?” (Mt 11:2-3)   Some years ago, the famous Trappist monk and writer on the spiritual life, Thomas Merton, wrote about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Confused about Kings</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sadly, many of you are too young to know what I’m talking about when I refer to Monty Python’s Flying Circus.  It was a comedy team that began working together at Cambridge University and they produced spoofs on English history. One routine focused on King Arthur.  Having received the sword, Excalibur, from a stone, according [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Goal of the Journey into Spiritual Maturity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Spiritual Journey]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the last several weeks, my wife and I have been talking to our parish about the journey into spiritual maturity and the essential elements of that journey, including: Confessing our need for God A willingness to surrender to God Taking a fearless moral inventory The willingness to be a meek horse And an openness [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Ministry of Reconciliation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A week ago my sister-in-law, Lori, was in town with her husband, Steve.  They were in Mount Juliet for a conference that kept them close to the event, and Steve was in a meeting, but we managed to squeeze in a quick visit with Lori. Both Lori and Steve are Episcopal priests – yes, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Breaking up the Anglican Communion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Sarah Mullally]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The election of the Right Reverend Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury has inflamed tensions across the Anglican Communion.  Although the majority of the church is comfortable with the choice, some members of Anglican family have said that they can no longer look to Canterbury for leadership – though not nearly as many as some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On a &#8220;Fearless Moral Inventory&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederick Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[1 Timothy 1:14]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral Inventory]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us.”  (1 Timothy 1:14) What does Paul mean when he writes, “Guard the good treasure entrusted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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