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	<title>a believer's journal</title>
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	<description>looking at the world through the eyes of faith in Jesus</description>
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		<title>not my world</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2012/05/11/not-my-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african-american]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We live in different worlds &#8212; still, worlds divided by color, and being divided by color, offering to those who live in them a sharply different range of options and possibilities. For the past year or so, I have been part of a team working with local African-American parolees, trying to provide them a broader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>conflict and community</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2012/05/10/conflict-and-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christ]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rachel simons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conflict and community are not mutually exclusive. Violence and community are mutually exclusive. Rachel Simons is a member of a Word Made Flesh team serving God by working with children in Moldova. In her May 2102 newsletter, she suggests that conflict is in fact &#8220;a starting point for community, rather than the ingredient that destroys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;miah and friends&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2012/05/04/miah-and-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arts and culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first congregational ucc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organ]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/?p=523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch a video recording of the finale from the &#8220;Miah and Friends&#8221; organ recital performed at First Congregational United Church of Christ on April 29. The piece is &#8220;Maestoso&#8221; from &#8220;Organ Symphony No. 3&#8243; by Camille Saint-Saens. Miah Han plays organ, accompanied by timpani and a brass quintet. The concert provided all of us who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an extremely regressive tax</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2012/04/19/518/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2012/04/19/518/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lottery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sojourners]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/?p=518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Sojourners Magazine includes an opinion piece by Phil Blackwell, entitled Not Worth the Gamble, a response to the recent ruling by the US Justice Department to permit states to sell lottery tickets online. I have always had a problem with lotteries, with citizen governments in the business of promoting gambling. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>one more state gives up the death penalty</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2012/04/12/one-more-state-gives-up-the-death-penalty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2012/04/12/one-more-state-gives-up-the-death-penalty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death_penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/?p=513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Connecticut became the seventeenth state to vote to outlaw the death penalty. May the thirty-three remaining states with death penalty provisions still enacted in state law be soon to follow! Capital punishment can certainly be a hot button political issue, but it is difficult to imagine how a group of legislators voting to abolish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>killing bin laden</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2011/05/04/killing-bin-laden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2011/05/04/killing-bin-laden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bin laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[image of god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenge]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/?p=508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Osama bin Laden did evil things. Yes, he despoiled the image of God that was put in him as well as in each of us. But if we allow his choices to change our choices, to make us people ready to kill &#8212; for the sake of &#8220;closure,&#8221; for the sake of &#8220;justice,&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>kilauea erupts</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2011/03/07/kilauea-erupts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2011/03/07/kilauea-erupts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[personal life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the natural world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hawaii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kilauea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volcano]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/?p=496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I were on the big island two months ago and visited Volcanoes National park. We saw some lava flows but nothing like this!]]></description>
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		<title>becoming our own worst enemy</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/09/10/becoming-our-own-worst-enemy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/09/10/becoming-our-own-worst-enemy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bin laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/?p=485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was directed by a college classmate to this Ted Koppel editorial. The post title is mine, my summary of Koppel&#8217;s argument. We are threatened. We live in a world that is not safe. We do have enemies. But it is most unfortunate when we do our enemies&#8217; job for them. Then it is us, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>illegal to love your neighbor in arizona?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/04/23/illegal-to-love-your-neighbor-in-arizona/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/04/23/illegal-to-love-your-neighbor-in-arizona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jim wallis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law enforcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/?p=475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excerpt from a recent report by Jim Wallis from Phoenix, Arizona. May the followers of Jesus in our own day echo the words of Peter and John and the other apostles: &#8220;We must obey God, not men.&#8221; I got up at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning to fly to Phoenix, Arizona, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>easter sunrise 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/04/05/easter-sunrise-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/04/05/easter-sunrise-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the natural world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sunrise]]></category>

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