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		<title>An Unsettling Feeling</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/10/14/an-unsettling-feeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for me, I am going to continue to share my personal experiences of alienation from my own perspective; one that I have found some understanding of it through the "setting apart" that occurs with ordination.  The irony, of course, is that the extraordinary way that the Episcopal Church, with her liturgies and sacraments, had sustained my connection to God, was one of the main reasons I accepted the call to ordained ministry. 
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		<title>Houston, We Have A Problem!</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/10/12/the-problem-is-we-dont-understand-the-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've become a social media evangelist. Some do 'get it' but are invested in keeping the status quo of old media methods. "Old" media doesn't enable easy, strong connections. The Church at the diocesan and national level should facilitate these connections because that is part of the job. Just as the parish priest has a pastoral responsibility to create a community that supports a parishioner's spiritual growth, so does the bishop and presiding bishop have a pastoral responsibility toward the clergy.]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Rules for the Really Religious</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/09/27/facebook-rules-for-the-really-religious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[there should be rules for the religious on Facebook.  I couldn't find a list on Google, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to add, amend or delete as you see fit.]]></description>
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		<title>The Conversation: The Art of Listening, Learning and Sharing</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/09/19/the-conversation-the-art-of-listening-learning-and-sharing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/09/19/the-conversation-the-art-of-listening-learning-and-sharing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An extraordinary thing is happening on the internet: real conversations are taking place where people are listening to other people's ideas, learning about different perspectives, and sharing their unique knowledge ... You know how you used to receive tons of newspaper and magazine clippings from your mother of interesting tidbits she stumbled across in her print media readings? You know how you get tons of "You gotta see this" type emails with stupid animal antics or sappy memories of the golden days? Well, these tools do something similar. Only much faster, more cheaply and reaching a much wider audience. Also, they are "permissive" connections, meaning you only read them if you choose to go see what online info Aunt Matilda has recently marked as an interesting tidbit. These aspects of  fast, cheap, large, and permissive are true among all these categories.]]></description>
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		<title>Beware: The Church &#8220;Parking Lot Meeting&#8221; Has Gone Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My seminary professor, Charlie Cook, always told us that the <strong>real</strong> Vestry Meeting took place afterward in the parking lot. What Charlie was not able to anticipate in his caution was that the parking lot would eventually extend into the virtual realm of the World Wide Web.  It is the ability to engage others, parishioners and seekers, that are meeting on the <em>virtual church parking lot</em> that makes learning about and participating in social media worth every Church leader's time and energy.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m selling Indulgences, just Ember Day Letters.</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/09/14/its-not-like-im-selling-indulgences-just-ember-day-letters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my non-liturgical or low-church or unchurched friends, let me explain the issue. According to ancient tradition, there are four times a year (Ember Days) during which an aspirant/postulant/candidate/ordinand (one who is in the ordination process) is to write a letter to their Bishop. But I never knew "what" I was suppose to write. We were told to let the Bishop know how you were doing, how you were coming along, in the whole " priestly formation" thing. But, really, you couldn't do that, not honestly.]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/09/10/250/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<title>If you believe in God, then Health Care Politics &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/08/13/if-you-believe-in-god-then-health-care-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/08/13/if-you-believe-in-god-then-health-care-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The healthcare debate is loud and earnest. As it should be. We are talking about very fundamental, elementary issues of living together in community. We are continuing the national discernment process begun in the 18th century of establishing what it means to say that our Creator endowed all hu(man)s with certain unalienable rights. Among those, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ubiquitous Theology of God-as-a-Mean-Girl</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/07/28/the-ubiquitous-theology-of-god-as-a-mean-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They wanted to know if I was saved; if I knew Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.  I was baffled that my membership in the Episcopal Church did not satisfy their soteriological criteria.   Apparently, I needed to recite a formulaic prayer and if I didn't remember the exact day that I had uttered this prayer, then I could bet my bottom dollar (or worse, my eternal life) that my name was not written in The Book... Basically, I was being taught a theology of God-As-A-Mean-Girl...What the Church knew and had prepared through her liturgy, traditions and sacraments was that eventually I would need the mature solid food that is the ambiguous, paradoxical,  yes - and nature of theological truths.]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Only Future is an Impossible Future</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahgbennett.com/MyWonderings/2009/07/26/where-the-only-future-is-an-impossible-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is in this absolute future where the wild things are. It is in this land of unlikeness where Beauty falls in love with the Beast, where things that were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new. It is where the Impossible becomes possible. It is where the lion lays down with the lamb.]]></description>
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