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		<title>Tears</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Devotional written for Memphis Center for Urban Theological Studies Adapted from an earlier post. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” — Washington Irving [...]
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		<title>Resolutions. The Boring Kind.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t going to do this, but I&#8217;ve been thinking (not too hard) about it and I do have a few resolutions, so here goes. Some are lofty and spiritual, some are probably unattainable and some are just going to be fun. In no particular order: I&#8217;m not going to say a lot about this [...]
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		<title>Advent Prayer: Knocking for Opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning as my husband, Jim, and I got ready to leave for church, I put on my coat, scarf and gloves to stay warm in the 20-degree weather and single-digit windchill. I had to decide between brown gloves to go with my pants or black gloves to go with my coat; cloth or leather, [...]
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		<title>Blog Action Day: Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Blog Action Day, the purpose of which is to bring awareness to the lack of clean water that kills more people each year than all forms of violence, including war. Blog Action Day 2010: Water from Blog Action Day on Vimeo. The problem: Right now, almost one billion people on earth do not [...]
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		<title>Homeless by Choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not often or easily offended, but, as much as I love the techie site Gizmodo, this article kind of &#8230; infuriates me. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s possible to be kind of infuriated, but bear with me. The post, I&#8217;m Homeless and This Is Why I Have an iPad, depicts a man against a [...]
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