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		<title>Sola Storia Universale &#8211; Only the biggest story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Revelation comes in two volumes; the Bible and nature.&#8221; Thomas Aquinas &#8220;When a Story becomes scripture, it ceases to evolve.&#8221; Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution As we think of Martin Luther’s revolutionary challenge to the Catholic Church some 494 years ago last Sunday we honour his role in breaking down the stranglehold of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=956&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Tucker does junk religion : the &#8220;Unlearning&#8221; review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the Darwin Award for Ecclesial extinction goes to&#8230; Any church leader in Sean Tuckers new book &#8220;Unlearning&#8221;. Well, not all of them, but Sean&#8217;s debut is a litany of insensitivity, crassness and downright toxic religion, which I am now reminded, has been alive and well over this last decade. The key sentiment, told in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=936&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nested Storyverse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creation spirituality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on a few ideas coming out of conversations on the advent of evolutionary christianity, I thought it would be good to articulate a schema of our stories, especially in the light of the  evolutionary/emergent paradigm, and compare it with the orthodox/evangelical construct. As I grow towards an understanding of the universe as a divinely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=930&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Advent of Evolutionary Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Kind of Christianity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philip Clayton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Mother, its been almost 2 months since my last post. And I confess that it was a bit of a downer: the non-event (for me) of Lausanne 2010. That shut me up for a bit. But now, the news just got good again&#8230; I&#8217;ve been following one of the most inspiring events of recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=925&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lausanne 2010 &#8211; the questions to your answer.</title>
		<link>http://soundandsilence.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/lausanne-2010-the-questions-to-your-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[belonging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dualism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week saw the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (yes folks, that’s spelled with a zee) take place in Cape Town. I held an open posture (a &#8220;reverse pretzel&#8221;) towards the goings on, and met face to face with a few delegates. But by and large I remained fringer than the self-proclaimed &#8220;fringe&#8221;. Part of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=920&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keiskamma &#8211; a story of love</title>
		<link>http://soundandsilence.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/keiskamma-a-story-of-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film making]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my experience not many films manage to reach us without some level of coercion or manipulation, especially where subjects such as the Aids pandemic take centre stage. As we become immune to messages, filmmakers have to resort to more and more extreme tactics to grab our attention. &#8220;Keiskamma &#8211; a story of love&#8221; is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=910&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The sacred imagination of Anne Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anne Rice, Vampire author turned Catholic convertee, this week announced that she was &#8220;through with Christianity&#8221;. But rather than turning back to her earlier atheism, she sees this bold move as an expression of deepening commitment to the Christ which both pre- and post-dates Christendom. Responding to the seemingly intractable pathologies resulting from adherents to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=903&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An utterance</title>
		<link>http://soundandsilence.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/an-utterance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I failed to do because of the bigness of my ideas I can now achieve because of the smallness of my life. [Roger Witter, 18 June 2010].<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=879&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rohr on 9 stages of consciousness</title>
		<link>http://soundandsilence.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/rohr-on-9-stages-of-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Duns Scotus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard Father Richard Rohr presenting more than one framework for development (that includes the work of Fowler and Plotkin), but this is the one he presented on 12th June 2010 in Cape Town. There is much to say in respect to this teaching, and I hope people will comment. For me this type [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=887&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Karen Armstrong&#8217;s long and winding road.</title>
		<link>http://soundandsilence.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/karen-armstrongs-long-and-winding-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Paton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God, rid me of God [Meister Eckhart] Former nun, lapsed Catholic, unsuccessful academic, undiagnosed epileptic, fired schoolteacher, failed heterosexual, cultural ignoramus, unlucky in love, ex-Christian, post-atheist, faded TV personality, turned author, sage and freelance monotheist: these are some of the milestones on Karen Armstrong’s long, hard road. Very rarely does an autobiography remain a gripping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soundandsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=519286&amp;post=880&amp;subd=soundandsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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