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		<title>Saints Go Marching In!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been an exciting week for the people of Louisiana. The state gathered in front of our televisions Sunday night to watch one of the most exciting things that has happened in the state in a long time. There was a “buzz” all day as commentators spoke time and time again of this unlikely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=98&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Epiphany</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight countless children in Latin American countries will eagerly await the arrival of “los Reyes,” the wise men. They will go outside and collect grass for the camels, place it next to their bed and will wake up to presents left by these mysterious visitors from long ago. I am reminded of my own childhood: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=67&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Yearly Examen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent stop at a coffee shop I decided to reflect on the passing year and the year to come. There were some important milestones this year, our oldest entering kindergarten, our third child being born, surviving the first year in a solo pastorate. There were also some difficult times, our oldest entering kindergarten, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=62&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined. 3You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder. 4For the yoke of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=58&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon many of our churches will be filled. People will gather from different places and find time to sing Silent Night and light candles. Some there are family members that are visiting for the holiday, but most are &#8220;members&#8221; of your congregation that you only see at Christmas and Easter. Last night in a conversation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=56&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent Space in a Christmas World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Friday my sister in law woke up early to be at a local department store at 2:45 in the morning. She wanted to be part of so called “black Friday,” the day after thanksgiving shopping extravaganza that supposedly kicks off the holiday shopping season. She was there with hundreds of others who were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=48&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the change . . .</title>
		<link>http://spiritstirrer.org/2009/11/20/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had no plans to change my blog platform. Then all hell broke loose, actually we decided to move Liturgical Nerds to wordpress, and I decided it was better to move spiritstirrer here so that I could manage them together. Josh and I have committed to writing more on LN as a way to continue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=1&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rhythms of Pastoral Life</title>
		<link>http://spiritstirrer.org/2009/11/04/the-rhythms-of-pastoral-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I spoke about those early months in ministry. Those months seemed like years! So much took place and much learning happened and little by little I settled in as pastor. It was almost as if one day I woke up and my normal movements, thinking, and inclination was that of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=30&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Pastoral Beginning</title>
		<link>http://spiritstirrer.org/2009/10/28/my-pastoral-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest Christian Century magazine (November 3) David J. Wood, senior pastor of Glencoe Union Church in Glencoe Ill., reviews a book called From Midterms to Ministry: Practical Theologians on Pastoral Beginnings, ed. Allan Hugh Cole Jr. His review of this book solidified my own need to reflect more deeply on my own beginning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=29&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calling &amp; Discernment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had been there a while. I could not remember at what point it emerged. In some ways I think it had always been there, I had always known. And then there was that moment when I was 12. It was the practice of our congregation to allow children at age 12 to read scripture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritstirrer.org&amp;blog=10587374&amp;post=27&amp;subd=spiritstirrer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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