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		<title>A Tea Party, An Occupation and People of the Incarnation</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/12/a-tea-party-an-occupation-and-people-of-the-incarnation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe the answer is not a tea party or an occupation or any protest movement after all. I believe we must give ourselves, as disciples of Jesus, to another movement - to His living Body - a people who are again re-incarnating a kingdom not of this world... ]]></description>
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		<title>Living Beyond A Culture of Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jaques Ellul said: "The more security and guarantees we want against things, the less free we are. Tyrants are not to be feared today, but our own frantic need of security is...Helen Keller observed, "Security is mostly a superstition..."]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<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>Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell&#8230;(book review)</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2011/01/crashing-the-idols-the-vocation-of-will-d-campbell-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Enstad</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heroes and Prophets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in 1924, in southern Mississippi, Campbell came of age in one of the most racially divided parts of the most racially divided state in the Union...Campbell is an ordained Southern Baptist minister but, like most iconoclasts and prophets, no institution could find a good use for him, nor could he for them...]]></description>
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		<title>Will Campbell: Racism and the Church (EthicsDaily Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<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>To Redeem Christmas We Must Redeem Advent</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2010/12/to-redeem-christmas-we-must-redeem-advent/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2010/12/to-redeem-christmas-we-must-redeem-advent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fuerst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we want to redeem Christmas, we must redeem Advent. And it cannot be one or two of us, it must be a community that together decides that waiting, repenting, expecting, mourning, and longing for more is better than all the promises of Black Friday and Christmas morning...]]></description>
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		<title>Wendell Berry: 17 Rules For A Sustainable Local Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 04:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Berry</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<title>Turning a Deaf Ear to the &#8216;American Way&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2010/09/turning-a-deaf-ear-to-the-american-way/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2010/09/turning-a-deaf-ear-to-the-american-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life In The Spirit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We tried to imitate [Jesus] in the 1960s...When I was a teenager I thought this meant going barefooted and having long hair. Today I'm finding that the call to discipleship is more expensive. It demands that I turn a deaf ear to the seductive force of materialism and the 'American Way'...]]></description>
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		<title>Merton and Rushkoff: A Call To Exodus</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2010/09/merton-and-rushkoff-a-call-to-exodus/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2010/09/merton-and-rushkoff-a-call-to-exodus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We’re living in a totalitarian society. It’s not fascist in a political sense, but in the way that it’s economically organized. It’s organized for profit and for marketing. In that machinery there’s no real freedom..."]]></description>
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		<title>Front Porch Education</title>
		<link>http://sustainabletraditions.com/2010/09/front-porch-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragan Sutterfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set aside for a moment your own experiences with school and think about how, given ample time and resources, you would go about educating children. What contexts would you put them in? Who would you want them to learn with and how?...Who would be their companions on the learning journey?...]]></description>
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