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	<title>Good Without God</title>
	
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		<title>Writing vs. Talking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I&#8217;ve always hated about writing, long as I can remember, is sitting down in front of a computer, facing an empty screen, and having to type. I just freeze up—it’s the most excruciating experience. In that situation my subconscious mind calls up  the idea of every great piece of writing that was ever written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festivals of Life and Renewal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then the earth comes back to life. Nature resurrects itself. That is the real story of Easter, and it’s why the Easter and Passover season is probably my favorite of the year if I had to choose. Every year I’m amazed by the way the way it happens again: no matter what is going wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is(n’t) a Humanist Community?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodwithoutgod/?p=92</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a practice run in early March followed by a particularly busy period, it looks like I&#8217;m finally just about ready to start blogging more. And just in time to share some results from a new little talk I gave last weekend. In it, I began to explore how we might define Humanist community in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation 6: The Things We’ve Handed Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodwithoutgod/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m exhausted and wondering how the hell bloggers do it. We&#8217;ve had such a long day here in Los Angeles. An orientation session where we got to know fellow participants on this Spring Break Service Trip; then a long drive out to California Lutheran University where we packed hundreds of meals for the young people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation 5: Love After Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodwithoutgod/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some rare days where, thanks to good friends or good will or just good luck, or all of the above, you can be thousands of miles from home and yet feel you have arrived at a safe haven, a place where you can be completely yourself, and your best self at that. Spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation 4: Virtues in the Void</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodwithoutgod/?p=74</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a great discussion of Humanism tonight with the Pomona Student Union, in an event the Pomona students decided to call &#8220;Virtues in the Void&#8220;. I was so impressed with the depth of the questions the students asked. Here are several&#8211; the last few in particular will be provocative for anyone who is trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I participated in a radio debate with Dr. PZ Myers, a popular blogger on science and atheism, on the topic of &#8220;How Should the Atheist Movement Talk About Religion?&#8221; Give the program a listen if you haven&#8217;t yet. It&#8217;s a worthwhile hour&#8211; Myers is a passionate, articulate, and entertaining voice for atheism, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation 3: The Peace of Wild Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 05:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodwithoutgod/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now the Humanist Community Project is in the midst of a 3-day intensive training seminar. We&#8217;re helping 18 students who want to work as Humanist celebrants, officiating at Humanist wedding, funeral, baby welcoming, and other ceremonies. There are very few training opportunities for such folks in the US today, despite the fact that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation 2: Erich Fromm’s Faith in Humanist Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodwithoutgod/?p=59</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;faith&#8221; is making the rounds in Humanist discussion circles for the bazillionth time this week. Here&#8217;s a reading on ethics by one of my favorite Humanist philosophers&#8211; Erich Fromm, another psychologist from the mid 20th century. Fromm had many, many inspiring things to say about the Humanist&#8217;s pursuit of a meaningful life. (And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation 1: Prometheus and Rollo May</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a first meditation, I figured what better than the myth of Prometheus, as interpreted by Rollo May, one of my favorite humanistic psychologists. Let&#8217;s just dive into May&#8217;s words, from his 1975 book The Courage to Create: In ancient Greek civilization, there is the myth of Prometheus, a Titan living on Mount Olympus, who [...]]]></description>
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