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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; peace</title>
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	<description>looking at the world through the eyes of faith in Jesus</description>
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		<title>i applaud jimmy carter</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/04/22/i-applaud-jimmy-carter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I applaud Jimmy Carter for his courage, for engaging the leadership of Hamas in dialogue, for searching out any avenues for moving the peace process forward. He has been criticized for meeting at all with Khalid Meshaal, by both the Bush administration and the Democratic presidential candidates. Dialogue should be absolutely contingent, they argue, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>peace on earth</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/12/21/peace-on-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Simons lives in Galati, Romania, a field worker with Word Made Flesh, an Christian organization committed to &#8220;serving Jesus among the poorest of the poor.&#8221; She works with Galati&#8217;s street children, providing them educational and recreational and spiritual programs, and interacting with them on a daily basis in their own context on the streets. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an easter prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/20/an-easter-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! That was my reaction on reading this Easter letter written by the chair of our congregation&#8217;s board of deacons. I knew immediately I had to share it with all of you. Hear his prayer &#8230; and, if you will, make it your own! â€œEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on the subject of the war in iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/16/on-the-subject-of-the-war-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/16/on-the-subject-of-the-war-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jim_wallis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reprint for you here an excerpt of the remarks Jim Wallis will make at a Christian peace rally to be held this evening in Washingon, D.C. His words are powerful and passionate and perceptive and faithful to the gospel of Jesus. As Christians, we must discern and root out the fear in our own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a better way to deal with iran</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/01/a-better-way-to-deal-with-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/01/a-better-way-to-deal-with-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear_weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a piece in The Washington Post by Bill Richardson entitled: Diplomacy, Not War, With Iran Saber-rattling is not a good way to get the Iranians to cooperate. But it is a good way to start a new war â€” a war that would be a disaster for the Middle East, for the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the opposite of peace &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/12/08/the-opposite-of-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/12/08/the-opposite-of-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[despair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indifference]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the opposite of hope is not despair, but resignation. no hope, just emptiness, care-lessness &#8230; I think the opposite of love is not hatred, but apathy. no love, just indifference, care-lessness &#8230; Could it be that the opposite of peace is not conflict, but contentment? no longing for peace, just settling for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>nobel peace prize for micro-credit pioneer</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/13/nobel-peace-prize-for-micro-credit-pioneer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/13/nobel-peace-prize-for-micro-credit-pioneer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micro_credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Times calls it a truly inspiring choice. This year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus, a citizen of Bangladesh and a man with a dream to bring an end to poverty. His strategy has been to make small loans to people with little income, women in particular, people ineligible for conventional loans. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>william sloane coffin</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/04/13/william-sloane-coffin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/04/13/william-sloane-coffin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[follow_jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. died yesterday. Rev. Coffin was university chaplain during my time at Yale, and many years later has won my admiration as a genuine person of faith and a powerful voice for truth and justice and peace &#8212; God&#8217;s truth, God&#8217;s justice, God&#8217;s peace. The stories told about him and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a moral imperative for victims?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/18/a-moral-imperative-for-victims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/18/a-moral-imperative-for-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When hateful people produce lasting hatred in us &#8230; hate wins. When violent people make us violent &#8230; violence wins. When cruel people leave us with nothing but a burning desire for revenge in our minds and hearts &#8230; cruelty wins. When evil done to us gives birth to evil done by us &#8230; evil [...]]]></description>
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