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		<title>Adventures after Irene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday morning (the Friday after Irene that is) Marianne and I loaded the usual weekend stuff in the truck for a Friday/Saturday at our place in southern Vermont. This time of course checking for damage from Irene (none expected) was high on the agenda. Left CT about 8:30; took the truck so we could take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2011/09/06/adventures-after-irene/</link>
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		<title>What else?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have been very lax in working on the website, facebook, and my blog. (So what&#8217;s new?) Wanted to do an update on the global warming post some months ago but instead added this new category to cover whatever miscellaneous subjects come up.]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2011/09/06/what-else/</link>
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		<title>Coming soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This category follows from our fifth Wednesday service theme: &#8220;Searching for God&#8217;s footprints in the world of science.&#8221;  Here I hope to develop part of the basis for a &#8220;New Christianity.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2011/04/19/coming-soon/</link>
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		<title>Transformation:  Where will the web take us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[St. Paul&#8217;s – indeed the church as a whole – is in the process of transformation. The world is changing rather rapidly. It&#8217;s a much different place than it was a few years ago, a very difficult place &#8211; see our “World in transformation” blogs if you need examples! The church largely has not kept [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2011/02/27/transformation-where-will-the-web-take-us/</link>
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		<title>Transition continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The transition for us &#8211; from being the landlord to being a tenant &#8212; continues. The Soup Kitchen – our landlord – has been very accommodating to our needs and before too much longer we&#8217;ll be moving into our new offices. As someone who once was chief property worrier I am very aware of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2011/02/25/169/</link>
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		<title>Transgender Issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We talk about LGBT people but mostly we mean LGB. Our society has reached the stage where, at least officially, it&#8217;s ok &#8211; and fairly safe &#8211; to be gay or lesbian. People look pretty much the same whether gay, lesbian or straight. As a result, you can be out as gay &#8211; but when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2011/01/14/transgender-issues/</link>
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		<title>St. Paul&#8217;s on the subject</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Episcopal church seems to make the headlines via parishes that leave because they don&#8217;t approve of gay bishops, gay priests, blessing of same-sex couples, etc. (Most don&#8217;t approve of women priests either &#8211; certainly not women bishops!) It&#8217;s happened here in Connecticut &#8211; and the court battles are not over. Fortunately a majority of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2011/01/14/st-pauls-on-the-subject/</link>
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		<title>Emergent Conversations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the Wed. Gatherings at St. Paul&#8217;s in Willimantic have had the theme of &#8220;Emergence&#8221; or &#8220;Emergent Theology&#8221;. The emergent church &#8220;movement&#8221; is by no means one thing or series of concepts but perhaps this will serve as an introduction to some of the ideas we have looked at recently. We certainly welcome diverse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2010/11/26/emergent-conversations/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Radical Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts on Radical Prayer By Andrew Seeling &#8220;True, whole prayer is nothing but love.&#8221;  So says St. Augustine, and Richard J. Foster begins and concludes his book, &#8220;Prayer &#8211; Finding the Heart’s True Home&#8221; with that very concise quote.  What, then, does he imagine by this term &#8220;radical prayer&#8221; in his concluding chapter? I believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2010/10/04/thoughts-on-radical-prayer/</link>
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		<title>LGBT theology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To Bishop Spong, the debate is over but in case you don&#8217;t agree I&#8217;ll add my view. It seems that much &#8211; if not most &#8211; of the scriptural basis for considering homosexuality as sin can reasonably be interpreted as referring to homosexual rape rather than homosexuality itself. Don&#8217;t throw Leviticus into the argument unless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.stpaulswillimantic.org/2010/04/29/lgbt-theology/</link>
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