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		<title>An Easter poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These were the opening words in worship on March 31, 2013, at the First Parish in Needham. I saw the sun rise over Wollaston Beach, This day just like all the ones before it. The sky changing, black purple blue pink yellow, And suddenly, a blaze of light, doubled by the water beneath it. I&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://afreefaith.com/2013/03/31/an-easter-poem/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=963&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Entering search</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy year, and this blog has definitely suffered. So here&#8217;s my first post in a while, and there&#8217;s a lot to catch up on: My wife and I welcomed our first child in April, and he&#8217;s been a delight—I can&#8217;t believe he&#8217;s now six months old! My wife started a new job.&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://afreefaith.com/2012/10/27/entering-search/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=731&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So you&#8217;re seeing the MFC</title>
		<link>http://afreefaith.com/2012/02/08/so-youre-seeing-the-mfc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They tell you a whole lot, but if you&#8217;re like me, it&#8217;s not what you want to know. This, then, is my guide to seeing the MFC (for those who aren&#8217;t UU minister wannabes, that&#8217;s the Ministerial Fellowship Committee, a national organization that clears people to be UU ministers). This has nothing to do with&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://afreefaith.com/2012/02/08/so-youre-seeing-the-mfc/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=709&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chalice lighting: To serve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tiny spark begins a flame; it lights an ember that grows and builds and becomes a burning in our hearts to serve. This chalice lighting was written for use in worship on Jan. 29, 2012, at the First Parish in Needham. Filed under: Justice, Liturgical writing, Worship<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=699&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s free discrimination day!</title>
		<link>http://afreefaith.com/2012/01/11/its-free-discrimination-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court just assured all churches that they can freely discriminate against any employee they want. That&#8217;s right. So if you work for a church: Don&#8217;t have a disability, don&#8217;t get sick, don&#8217;t have a baby, don&#8217;t, well, don&#8217;t do any of those things that humans do. Because if you do, the church can&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://afreefaith.com/2012/01/11/its-free-discrimination-day/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=679&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We all have a sacred text</title>
		<link>http://afreefaith.com/2012/01/10/we-all-have-a-sacred-text/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have beliefs. Anyone who says they don&#8217;t have a sacred text, no collection of wisdom and ideals they hold dear is either lying or unaware. Saying you don&#8217;t just means you aren&#8217;t being upfront about what guides your life. That thought is brought to you because of an interesting blog post by my&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://afreefaith.com/2012/01/10/we-all-have-a-sacred-text/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=660&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How people found me</title>
		<link>http://afreefaith.com/2012/01/02/how-people-found-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People searched for &#8220;why pray(?),&#8221; &#8220;complaining prophets,&#8221; &#8220;how to become an online ordained Christian minister,&#8221; &#8220;japanese zen waterfall,&#8221; and &#8220;شاوي شاوي شاوي&#8221; and they found this site. A friend of mine who runs a popular blog (at least it&#8217;s popular with me) periodically does a post examining what search terms have led people to his&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://afreefaith.com/2012/01/02/how-people-found-me/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=647&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://afreefaith.com/2012/01/01/2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 60 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://afreefaith.com/2012/01/01/2011-in-review/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=644&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The virtue of impatience</title>
		<link>http://afreefaith.com/2011/12/19/the-virtue-of-impatience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit it; I am not a patient person. Many times I&#8217;ve been told that patience is something I need to work on. I&#8217;m compulsively on-time (very, very compulsively) and I think everyone else should be, too. I sometimes get frustrated at the glacial pace of some things in my life. It&#8217;s true. But here&#8217;s&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://afreefaith.com/2011/12/19/the-virtue-of-impatience/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=605&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some UUA pride</title>
		<link>http://afreefaith.com/2011/12/16/some-uua-pride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been more proud of the UUA, or more disappointed in the rest of America&#8217;s faith groups. It&#8217;s all about a case the Supreme Court heard a couple months ago involving a teacher at a Lutheran school. In short, she was fired, claimed it was because of a disability, and threatened to sue&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://afreefaith.com/2011/12/16/some-uua-pride/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afreefaith.com&#038;blog=21308275&#038;post=616&#038;subd=afreefaith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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