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	<description>Parenthood, disability, ethics, and the crooked way of grace</description>
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		<title>Have One Child or Many, Just Don&#8217;t Plan on Getting What You Expect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you choose to have one child or many, the children you end up with, and your willingness to embrace them no matter how they differ from the children you expected, will be the most important outcomes of your childbearing decisions.]]></description>
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		<title>A Book to Help Us Be Informed Listeners on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Tough Questions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether we're telling stories or absorbing facts (or ideally, doing both), we are called to be compassionate listeners. Dale Hanson Bourke's book, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Tough Questions, Direct Answers is a vital tool for that endeavor.]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest Mass Shooting Didn&#8217;t Even Make the Front Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was leafing through the New York Times last Saturday morning when, deep toward the back of the front section, I came upon this article about a gunman, armed with an assault weapon and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition, who shot and killed four people in Santa Monica. (The death toll has since risen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because He Cleans the Shower Drain: A Father&#8217;s Day Tribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I fall into the trap of believing that I already do everything anyway, that the minutiae in my head and the chores that I do on auto-pilot and the ways I most naturally interact with my kids are clearly the only minutiae and chores and interactions that matter. But they're not.]]></description>
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		<title>I Have a Kid Hangover (But Manage to Write Anyway)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The past thirteen-plus years for me have been one long exercise in welcoming the messy, noisy, needy people who are my children. They make it hard to get anything much done, especially writing. But without them, I'm not sure I'd have much of value to write.]]></description>
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		<title>Instead of Judging Our Fellow Parents, How About Offering Empathy &amp; Respect?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/06/instead-of-judging-our-fellow-parents-how-about-offering-empathy-respect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents love to judge each other for all kinds of perceived failures. Here are some common ways in which parents judge other parents harshly—and suggestions for replacing judgment with empathy and respect.]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitude in an Overscheduled Season</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/06/gratitude-in-an-overscheduled-season/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/06/gratitude-in-an-overscheduled-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the school year winds down, my calendar greets me each morning with its list of assemblies and ceremonies and recitals and final thises and thats. Reminders about teacher and coach gifts to be group funded and bought, of summer camp bills to be paid and paperwork to be completed. My brain greets me each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Poverty Affects Vaccination Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/05/how-poverty-affects-vaccination-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/05/how-poverty-affects-vaccination-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 14:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall I pointed blog readers to my colleague Rachel Stone&#8217;s post on vaccination as an expression of neighborly love. Today, Rachel has a follow-up post of sorts, commenting on a Mother Jones article indicating that poverty and other family issues (such as working parents who struggle to get their kids to the doctor&#8217;s office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kingdom Comes One Lonely Step at a Time—Until We Are Not Lonely Any More</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/05/kingdom-comes-lonely-step/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/05/kingdom-comes-lonely-step/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/?p=2201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Significant lifestyle changes (or even small changes) for the good of our earth and its inhabitants become sustainable and adoptable by a large population only when communal values change enough that healthier, more humane practices become the norm. Big lifestyle changes for ethical reasons are best done in community.]]></description>
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		<title>Factory Disasters in Bangladesh, Consumerism, and Original Sin</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/05/factory-disasters-in-bangladesh-consumerism-and-original-sin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Painter Dollar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I approach buying clothes for my children with the same compulsive attention to my kids&#8217; individual needs and wants that I bring to Christmas gift buying. Focused attention to my kids&#8217; clothing needs is, for me, as much an embodiment of maternal love as cooking is for some moms. Finding a shirt that I just [...]]]></description>
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