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		<title>Atheist Outreach To Heaven Bound Pet Owners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesus told us in Luke 16 that the children of this world are wiser (in their generation) than the children of light, which is why he told us to imitate their shrewdness. Here is an example of the kind of creative practicality the church should copy (not to mention the humor)
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		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/08/27/atheist-outreach-to-heaven-bound-pet-owners/</link>
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		<title>Off The Map Live 2009 &#8211; Mirrors, Maps and Phyllis Tickle</title>
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		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/08/22/off-the-map-conference-2009-mirrors-maps-and-phyllis-tickle/</link>
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		<title>Collaborate (rather than compete)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collaborate from Recycle Your Faith
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		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/08/21/collaborate-rather-than-compete/</link>
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		<title>Beauty Parlor Church Planting in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love church planters who take risks and responsibilty. That&#8217;s what Godfrey and Sarita Fernandes are doing in Bangalore India. They&#8217;re buying a hair salon so she can connect with 250 regular customers and they can support themselves 
Bangalore is The Silicon Valley of India 
I have known these two for over ten years. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/08/10/beauty-parlor-church-planting-in-india/</link>
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		<title>Performance Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mathematics is a performance, a living act, a way of interpreting the world.  Imagine music lessons in which students worked through hundreds of hours of sheet music, adjusting the notes on the page, receiving checks and crosses from the teachers, but never playing the music.  Students would not continue the subject because they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/08/05/performance-art/</link>
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		<title>Bottom Pyramid Teachings for Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the poor are converted into consumers, they get more than access to products and services.  They acquire the dignity of attention [my emphasis] and choices from the private sector that were previously reserved for the middle-class and rich. &#8211; C.K. Prahalad
Loaded Question
One of the most interesting questions I get asked is &#8220;What is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/07/29/bottom-pyramid-teachings-for-us/</link>
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		<title>Becoming A Blue Devil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of spanish class last week I received a phone call from a (919) area code. Instantly I knew what the call was about, before even listening to the message. 
It was Duke University on the line, 

After being waitlisted at Duke in May, I&#8217;ve repeatedly called and wrote to them trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/07/28/becoming-a-blue-devil/</link>
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		<title>Carrots For Christ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My weekly &#8220;practice&#8221; of preparing food for the &#8220;roof challenged&#8221; in my community. 

Making a giant beef stew for 150.

How I spend my friday afternoons. 
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		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/07/22/carrots-for-christ/</link>
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		<title>Practicology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jeff McQuilkin
Is it just me, or are there just too many “–ologies” out there? Theology, ecclesiology, eschatology—oh, and there are other multi-syllabic terminologies, too, like orthodoxy, orthopraxy, hermeneutics, rhamazeutics, and salmonellics. (If you can’t tell where I stopped using actual words and started poking fun—I just proved my point.)
It’s all a bit much for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/07/17/practicology/</link>
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		<title>Power(ful) Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who have power never think about it and those who don&#8217;t have it think about it all the time.     &#8211; Thomas Friedman
A friend and I have been pondering this double question and I&#8217;m putting it out to you &#8211; 
What is power?  and 
How do you recognize it?

Fire away.
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		<link>http://thepracticingchurch.com/2009/07/15/powerful-questions/</link>
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