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		<title>An unattached mind</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2009-05-19T09:34:38Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 15:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[existential questions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanley Fish is continuing his observations in the New York Times on the belief in the unattached mind most often promoted by those hostile to religion. Fish is preceptive in clarifying why a mind uncommitted to any pre-conceived notions can not think at all. He argues that those who would belittle religion usually have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All things new</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-01-01T21:53:56Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[existential questions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To start the new year fresh we need the gift of forgetting. We all know that it&#8217;s hard to go on if you keep reliving the past. The admonishment to forget contradicts every thing else we are told. We are reminded to remember where we came from, to remember those fallen in battle, and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The silence of God</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-08-26T20:26:38Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[existential questions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the cover story in this week&#8217;s Time Magazine about Mother Teresa&#8217;s crisis of faith. A dark night of the soul that lasted 50 years. The article is based on a new book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), consisting primarily of correspondence between Teresa and her confessors and superiors  over a period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art &amp; religion</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-08-07T22:15:11Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this article in the Arion journal by the always provocative cultural critic Camille Paglia. It&#8217;s long, but worth it.  I think she does a good job of showing the interdependent and mutual relationship of art and religion. In order for art and religion to flourish in a free society, conservatives and liberals will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred exploitation</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-06-11T20:52:30Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a story from the BBC about young girls in India who are sold into temple prostitution.  This ancient practice remains alive and should prompt us to dismiss any contemporary claim that the ancient goddess cults are good for women or girls. Historically, sacred sex, sacred virgin, and fertility rituals are code words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you sure you exist?</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-05-15T07:54:32Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 13:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salon.com has an interview with developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert, whose science tells him that God is a figment of our imagination. After reading it, I was left to wonder how Wolpert is so sure of his own existence and that he is not just another grand illusion.
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		<title>Topsy-turvy world</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-04-25T19:41:09Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pot Luck]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but I feel we are living in a topsy-turvy world straight out of a Tom Pynchon novel (like his latest Against the Day, which is indecipherable). In religion, politics, business, and the arts it feels like we are living with twentieth century values, programs, and leaders in a twenty-first century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re not worth it</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-04-23T19:30:57Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a post at Salon.com about a new study showing that one year out of college women earn less than comparable men. It gets worse as we move along. The study was published by The American Association of University Women. Besides structural gender discrimination, women do seem to accept less and put up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foot washings, baptisms, meals, and empty tombs</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-04-07T11:15:32Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spirituality/religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theology/church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 The Entombment by Caravaggio, 1602
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I can&#8217;t remember the first time I saw a baptism, I am sure it was a full body dunk of an adult convert to Christianity. I distinctively remember the first foot washing I witnessed at a pentecostal camp meeting. Since then both adult baptisms and foot washings are a rare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The secret, again</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-03-20T11:03:59Z</link>
		<comments>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-03-20T11:03:59Z#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality/religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that every few years the same banal, arrogant, and cheap spirituality gets recycled again. This time with no one other than Oprah championing The Secret. Read this excellent article in Salon. What is the secret? You create your own reality. Whatever you want you can have. Whatever you have, that you don&#8217;t want, [...]]]></description>
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