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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is long overdue, though I don&#8217;t kid myself that it&#8217;s long awaited by anyone, or anything like that. Blogging, at one time, was a wonderful thing for me. And it remains a wonderful thing for lots of people. But blogging was always supposed to be a part of a larger writing life for &#8230; <a href="https://rachelmariestone.com/2015/07/14/im-retiring-from-blogging-but-im-still-around-on-the-internet/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">I&#8217;m retiring from blogging, but I&#8217;m still around on the&#160;Internet</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The terrifying possibility of being raptured before our wedding nights</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Marie Stone]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like other children raised in dispensationalist circles, if I couldn’t locate my parents — our parsonage home was large and sprawling — my paranoid ideation included the possibility that not only had God cosmically arranged for my orphanhood but had also simultaneously damned me to suffer seven years, or possibly an eternity, of torment. Consequently, &#8230; <a href="https://rachelmariestone.com/2014/08/11/the-terrifying-possibility-of-being-raptured-before-our-wedding-nights/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The terrifying possibility of being raptured before our wedding&#160;nights</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The beauty of the ordinary and what makes an artist: Spark + Tumble Photography</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Marie Stone]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The connections we make in this life, across continents and across oceans, are nothing less than astounding, I think. A year ago I read a book review by the incomparable Lisa Ann Cockrel; a review that closes by noting that the book in question left Cockrel &#8220;craving latkes with spiced applesauce.&#8221; As I was in &#8230; <a href="https://rachelmariestone.com/2014/08/08/beauty-ordinary-artist-photography/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The beauty of the ordinary and what makes an artist: Spark + Tumble&#160;Photography</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 00:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Regular readers may have noticed that I appear to have, well, disappeared. (Apart, of course, from my new blog at Religion News Service.) It&#8217;s been a very, very long couple of months. The 100-calorie, snack-size version is that we&#8217;re back in the States now. And here is some of the emotional truth of the whole &#8230; <a href="https://rachelmariestone.com/2014/05/07/for-the-first-time-in-almost-forever/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">For the first time in (almost)&#160;forever&#8230;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How I learned to stop worrying and just eat the darn cupcake</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Marie Stone]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Food wasn&#8217;t a good gift from God to be received and eaten with pleasure and gratitude. It was something to fear, and fear it I did. The original sin, I believed, was a kind of gluttony: a deadly sin. It was better, according to Proverbs, to put a knife to my throat than to indulge &#8230; <a href="https://rachelmariestone.com/2014/03/20/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-just-eat-the-darn-cupcake/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How I learned to stop worrying and just eat the darn&#160;cupcake</span></a>]]></description>
		
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