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		<title>Church As Sharing Community</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2012/03/church-as-sharing-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Boitmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His remark caught me by surprise, “if the Church would do that, we wouldn’t need the rest of this.” It was a statement that has stayed with me even to now. The idea that simply by practicing a culture of sharing, recognizing God’s role in our provision for ourselves and others, the Church could change the world. That initially sounds a bit naive. But didn’t it already happen once?...]]></description>
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		<title>Embodying Our Faith: Creating A Culture of Sharing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Boitmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a culture where a person’s success is determined more often by the the things that we have, and the amount of each of them that we have, establishing a culture of sharing turns that entire notion on its head...]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Community: New Possibilities For Tough Economic Times</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2012/01/christian-community-new-possibilities-for-tough-economic-times/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2012/01/christian-community-new-possibilities-for-tough-economic-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We have the opportunity to imagine a spectrum of new communities where, as the followers of Jesus, we can create new ways to be a difference and make a difference”…for times like these.]]></description>
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		<title>Stewardship Gardening: A Values-Based Guide (resource)</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/11/stewardship-gardening-a-values-based-guide-resource/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/11/stewardship-gardening-a-values-based-guide-resource/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food & Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian agrarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christian faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[church-based community gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creation Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecclesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embodying our faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardening resources]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Summer of 2010 I had the opportunity to help design Good Ground Garden of First Presbyterian Church in Champaign, IL...Using Good Ground Garden as a case study, I sought to explore peoples’ conceptions of spirituality in the garden and how it shapes their actions, or vice versa...]]></description>
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		<title>In Your Underwear: Life In Intentional Christian Community (book excerpt)</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/08/in-your-underwear-life-in-intentional-christian-community-book-excerpt/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/08/in-your-underwear-life-in-intentional-christian-community-book-excerpt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All communities are formed ultimately in their underwear. Until you get to that place of exposure, shock, and acceptance you are not really community. In his book Life Together, Dietrich Bonheoffer called it the shock of disillusionment...]]></description>
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		<title>Householding: Families As Christian Communities</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/06/householding-families-as-christian-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/06/householding-families-as-christian-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody Adele Connally</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home and Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communal living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Intentional Christian Community]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sustainabletraditions.com/?p=2318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People want to know if, and how, householding can be possible....Paul gives the believers in Ephesus some directions about walking in love as the new community in Christ, and I believe householding is successful when we acknowledge our families as christian communities. ]]></description>
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		<title>Householding: Everybody&#8217;s Living Together!</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/06/householding-everybodys-living-together/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/06/householding-everybodys-living-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody Adele Connally</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sustainabletraditions.com/?p=2305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These family and community clusters are really, in the context of history and geography, the most normal way for humans to live. So why does it seem so weird to move in with family?...]]></description>
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		<title>Temple and Whirlwind: Rethinking The Church Building</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/02/temple-and-whirlwind-rethinking-the-church-building/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/02/temple-and-whirlwind-rethinking-the-church-building/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Voice of One Calling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sustainabletraditions.com/?p=1944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Church congregations were part of the same society that wanted supersized houses and the easy loans that made it possible...But now is it the end of a temple-based Christian spirituality in America? Would your community of faith continue on and thrive if the church building was eliminated?...]]></description>
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		<title>Will Campbell: Racism and the Church (EthicsDaily Video)</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/01/will-campbell-racism-and-the-church-ethicsdaily-video/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/01/will-campbell-racism-and-the-church-ethicsdaily-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial reconciliation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sustainabletraditions.com/?p=1890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why are the local churches in America the last place to see racial reconciliation- even in 2011? Author, farmer, activist and &#8220;renegade Baptist preacher&#8221; Will Campbell talks candidly about racism and the church (a clip from EthicsDaily&#8217;s DVD &#8216;Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism&#8216;).]]></description>
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		<title>Wendell Berry: 17 Rules For A Sustainable Local Community</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2010/10/wendell-berry-17-rules-for-a-sustainable-local-community/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2010/10/wendell-berry-17-rules-for-a-sustainable-local-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 04:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Berry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sustainabletraditions.com/?p=1638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["How can a sustainable local community (which is to say a sustainable local economy) function? I am going to suggest a set of rules that I think such a community would have to follow..."]]></description>
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