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		<title>Spear of Athena: Reconstructionism as Methodology, Strengths and Weaknesses</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor Warren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2015 01:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The strengths and weaknesses of reconstructionism as a methodology are many and varied, and are things that could be hotly debate by individuals for a while, the views presented are my own as arrived at by introspection and contemplation as well as by interaction with various Hellenists and reconstructionists of other polytheistic faiths.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spear of Athena: Books for the Curious and New</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor Warren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2015 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shifting to a polytheistic theology takes more than just reading a couple of books; it helps to learn about models which have persisted into the modern world, too. So here is Conor's slightly different list “starter” books: two for historical background and two for just starting to foment a new perspective.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spear of Athena: Relationships are Relationships, or I Need a Break</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor Warren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[breaking up is hard to do]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[All of the polytheists that I know, though by no means does this mean all polytheists ever, affirm that the gods have individual agency.  In this article, Conor shares some of the implications of this.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spear of Athena: Whose Sun is it Anyway?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor Warren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My eyes dart over the message board, and I’m met with a question:  we are aware of many cultures and many gods, so how do we reconcile that with only having one sun?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spear of Athena: Fear, What Storms Teach</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2015/05/spear-of-athena-fear-what-storms-teach/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor Warren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2015 17:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was terrified. I remembered a severe storm from my past, and I thought about the horrendous things that happened in other places to other people. What I was experiencing wasn’t what scared me.  What scared me was the thought of what I might experience. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spear of Athena: Technology, Athena, and Doing it Right</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor Warren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2015 05:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It always bothers me a little bit when I see Pagans take highly anti-tech stances sometimes even to the point of proudly proclaiming themselves Luddites and accusing all (or most) the evils of society on technology. That just isn’t something I can let slide by.]]></description>
		
		
		
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