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	<description>Susan Baller-Shepard on traveling life’s highways and byways one road at a time</description>
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		<title>Can we see what You see?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walk around the exhibit taking notes. Truth be told, any museum I go to, anywhere in the world, I&#8217;m a curator&#8217;s dream, I read the verbiage, I walk around taking notes. Notes on why this painting was so new in its time, what this artist said about Cubism, why this tool was used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Flash of Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     Wrapped in a blanket, windows open, I sit and wait for the green flash. It&#8217;s mystery, surprise, and wonder wrapped in color spectrum separating and light refracting. Across the street from the Atlantic Ocean, seven stories up I&#8217;ve sat and watched the sunrise for years on vacation. Every time we would visit my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about Pagans in Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[advent (n.) &#8221;important arrival,&#8221; 1742, an extended sense of Advent &#8221;season before Christmas&#8221; (Old English), from L. adventus &#8221;a coming, approach, arrival.&#8221; How are you doing in this crazy season that is upon us? I&#8217;m deeply grateful for friends among the world&#8217;s faith traditions. I learn something from each and every one of them, and I&#8217;m very grateful for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate National Adoption Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember it well, like it was not nine years ago, like it was sooner, rather than later. I remember the anxiety that left me sleepless, wired. My brain, like an accelerator, bouncing questions around like neutrinos. Who was she? How was she? How will this all transpire? That November we were preparing to adopt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;For whom will you vote, and why?&#8221;  Let&#8217;s see now&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content Director&#8217;s Note: This post is a part of our Election Month at Patheos feature. Patheos was designed to present the world&#8217;s most compelling conversations on life&#8217;s most important questions. Please join the Facebook following for our new News and Politics Channel &#8212; and check back throughout the month for more commentary on Election 2012. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binders full of egos: Deciding how to vote?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content Director&#8217;s Note: This post is a part of our Election Month at Patheos feature. Patheos was designed to present the world&#8217;s most compelling conversations on life&#8217;s most important questions. Please join the Facebook following for our new News and Politics Channel &#8212; and check back throughout the month for more commentary on Election 2012. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Felix Baumgartner jumps&#8230;.To infinity and&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I kept cleaning up the kitchen, I couldn&#8217;t watch. I went upstairs to grade papers, but found myself listening for what was happening, and then, I came back downstairs again just in time to see Felix Baumgartner jump out of the craft that would send him hurling through space. I thought of all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion: Posing Threats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How threatening is religion? To a government, to a status quo, to a lifestyle? Is Barack Obama&#8217;s Protestantism threatening? What about Mitt Romney&#8217;s Mormonism? It&#8217;s a fascinating question we&#8217;ve been addressing in Major World Religions. Lately we&#8217;ve been talking about the &#8220;threatening&#8221; power of Confucianism. How could Confucius&#8217; legacy endure for so long, and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dating My Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m transient. This time my journey takes me back to college. Actually, I&#8217;m back to teach this time: Major World Religions. Twice a week I go to class and talk about how religion is shaping the news, in good and bad ways. The Major World Religions students get to hear that from me often. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympics and the Great Art of Trying</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Baller-Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker often overflows with literary greatness. I read it for sentences and vocabulary that gives me pause. Past New Yorker favorites have included Peter Hessler&#8217;s tales of daily life in China, Jerome Groopman&#8217;s insights into the human body, Oliver Sachs insights on immunization programs, David Eagleman on innate human sense of timing, and Malcolm [...]]]></description>
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