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		<title>“Thin Places,” Where the Boundaries between the Spiritual and Physical Worlds are Almost Transparent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Celtic Christians prized “thin places,” where the boundaries between the spiritual and physical world are almost transparent. Where we can sense shimmering in the physical world the just-as-real, invisible, supernatural world, charged with the glory of God, with hills ringed with angels in chariots of fire. Could God really be more present in one place [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>On Nourishment for the Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I love beaches. There was a five year period in which I did not see the sea&#8211;my three years reading English in Oxford, and two years at Ohio State getting a Masters in Creative Writing. And then I saw a lot of the sea, when we lived in Stanford, Palo Alto, in Northern California while [&#8230;]</p>
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