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		<title>Do You Have the Guts to Be a Wimp?</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/not-standing-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I preach and write a lot about looking at your own flaws and leaving other people alone. Nearly every time I do someone says to me, &#8220;But there comes a time when you have to stand up for yourself. You don&#8217;t want to be a wimp and let people walk all over you.&#8221; Of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Manresa, prt. 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 03:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3:39 pm.  Tired, but sleep is not coming.  The noise of my fan seems like a violent insult over the thick blanket of silence in this place.  Right now I cannot imagine three days of this.  I just want something – anything – to do.  I want to go home. 4:08 pm.  Feels like detox.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But the Bible says&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People should be extremely careful before using &#8220;but the Bible says&#8221; as a way to defend their own behaviors or condemn those of others. Here are some hilarious questions that taking the Bible literally could raise. 1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My top book recommendations: Psychology/Self-help</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/top-books-psych/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[MISCELLANY]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite having a B.S. in Clinical Psychology and an M.A. in Counseling, I don&#8217;t read a lot of &#8220;straight&#8221; psychology books. Often they are boring and extremely theoretical. I tend to read practical psychology books, the kind that most others would find interesting in this category. A rare exception to this makes up my first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Endless Machinations of Ego</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/ego-machinations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Richard Rohr is one of the best writers and teachers of Christian spirituality on the scene at this time. He sent out a meditation today which, in my opinion, is his best encapsulation of the endless schemes and machinations of ego. Spirituality is never more dangerous than when it is used to furnish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistakes parents make, prt. 1</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/mistakes-parents-make-prt-1/</link>
		<comments>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/mistakes-parents-make-prt-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I had breakfast this morning with a young couple who have a baby.  They are obviously excellent parents.  It seems that the skills to be a great parent come naturally to some couples, but not to others. Ever seen Supernanny?  Do kids have to be that wretchedly misbehaved before we could agree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My top book recommendations: Leadership</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/my-top-book-recommendations-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Becraft, “Leadership” September 25, 2006 via Flickr, Creative Commons Mark Twain said there is little difference between a person who can&#8217;t read and a person who doesn&#8217;t. So true, and one of the surest signs that a person needs to read is that he/she has no use for it. Similarly, one of the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Body of Broken Bones, prt. 1</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/body-of-broken-bones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 02:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break my bones, a photo by Joe Doe 2010 on Flickr. All over the face of the earth the avarice and lust of men and women breed unceasing divisions among them, and the wounds that tear them from union with one another widen and open out into huge wars. Murder, massacres, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church Stinks&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/the-church-stinks/</link>
		<comments>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/the-church-stinks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 02:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an email I sent to my church today&#8230; In&#160;the last few weeks I have done a lot of thinking about the church. Not merely this church, but the whole North American church. I have come to some realizations more clearly than ever before and I&#8217;m going to tell you what they are, but please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A call to read less of the Bible</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/a-call-to-read-less-of-the-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/05/a-call-to-read-less-of-the-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 02:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thefallencleric</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Christian people don&#8217;t worship God, they worship the Bible. I assume the same is true of other sacred books such as the Koran, the Torah, and the Bagavhad Gita, although it wouldn&#8217;t HAVE to be this way. A particular set of circumstances have risen up in the US to bring about this result. But [...]]]></description>
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