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		<title>Hurricane Heroes and the Book of Exodus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Levison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Hurricane Harvey barreling down on the Texas coast, with Galvestonians and Houstonians making their exodus north, I’m struck by the irony of this week’s lectionary text. The focus? The Nile River, which was famous for the floods that fueled the fertility of the famed Nile River Valley and fed the Nile delta. Many of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beneath the Headlines: Another Presidential Committee Ups and Quits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the minute-by-minute debacle of modern American politics, it is easy to miss something important. For example, on Wednesday, when the headlines had to do with the CEO flight from Trump’s manufacturing and business councils, Trump officially terminated the Central Minors Program. According to the Washington Post, Obama responded to a spike in the number [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Summer of &#8217;17: Jacob&#8217;s Ladder and Esau&#8217;s Tragedy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Levison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every year, without fail, we sang the chorus Jacob’s Ladder at church camp. Sung by a hundred Long Island high schoolers, it was interminable. (It never sounded like this. Wow!) We certainly had no idea this was a Negro Spiritual with a history that stretched back 150 years or so. So we sang it. We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Summer of &#8217;17: Sibling Rivalry on Steroids</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Levison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Priscilla and I had three miscarriages before we had our daughter Chloe and son Jeremy. We waited, not decades, of course, but in the uncertainty of whether we could have children at all. Countless visits to doctors, to geneticists. Countless walks. Countless cups of coffee. Then Chloe was born after twenty-seven hours of labor—and whisked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Summer of &#8217;17: the Amazing Disappearing Man!</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter/2017/07/summer-17-amazing-disappearing-man/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Levison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2017 01:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, my older sisters would say, “He’s useless.” No. That’s not quite right. They were exasperated, so they’d sigh, “He’s use-less. MOM!” That’s better. No doubt I was the useless younger brother of two older sisters. I probably still am. Both of them are nurses, who have spent hours upon hours [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Summer of &#8217;17: Fragile</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Levison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When our son Jeremy was just a kid, he often set himself up in the living room and built Lego gas stations, space ships, and castles. Our living room, where he held sway, godlike over his creation, had six floor-to-ceiling windows, which he faced. This meant Jeremy had his back to me, as he sat, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Summer of &#8217;17: a Summer of Trysts and Turns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Levison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The lectionary last week … Wait! Did I start a blog post with the word lectionary? How boring is that? Actually, not at all. For this entire summer, the summer of ’17, I’m working with Tommy Williams, the affable and able pastor at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Houston, to offer a series of podcasts that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stuff the Style: Reflections on Preaching from Jimmy Dunn</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Levison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m reading through Jimmy Dunn’s thick, beautiful, provocative book, Jesus and the Spirit. Enthralled, I’ve taken to making practical guidelines for the Perkins students who are in my class just now. I just can’t resist. I sent one of these wee practical guides to Scot Mcknight just yesterday. Scot studied with Jimmy–fortunate men, both of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Pentecost, Dump the Red and Go Green!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Levison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2017 01:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Normally Pentecost has its own color, red, to remember the fire that hovered over Jesus’ followers on that remarkable day of Pentecost over 2,000 years ago. Christians who follow the church calendar, in fact, wear red on Pentecost. Red shirts. Red pullovers. Red skirts. The church colors—vestments, banners, and altar cloths—turn to red for the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Detritus of Dreams</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Levison]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2017 15:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I saw this photograph today from Parsons School of Design in a New York Times article. It contains the backpacks left behind by migrants coming across our border. Of course, it is a powerful image of loss and naivete. Of dreams shattered. Of panic. Of giving up–both things and hope. That is where the photo [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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