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		<title>Weddings at the Cathedral</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fr. Brian Brown is an ordained catholic bishop in the free catholic tradition.  He is a native of the Ozarks for over 40 years and has been in ministry to the people of the Ozarks for the last 15 of those years.He serves as the pastor of a small yet faithful bunch at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witch-Hunts and Religious Intolerance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve watched the headlines, listened to the news on the radio, and have heard people throughout the day engaged in general conversation I have become increasingly alarmed.  You see, I really believe our society is becoming increasing religiously intolerant, in regards to any faith that is not of the 20th century evangelical fundamentalistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve Earned it Mr. President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following all the blogging, tweating, news, and general melee on the Presidents &#8220;vacation&#8221; to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard.  And while I could perhaps say a lot of things about the criticism, a large sign on main street there read:
A big sign on a hotel dominating Main Street read:
Mansion House Inn Believes Anyone Who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wink and a Goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems this summer has been a wink and a goodbye.  The days have passed quickly and there seemed to be no shortage of work to be done.  I was just thinking about how much has changed just over these last few months for not just myself but also for many folks around me.
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		<title>The King of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reflecting over the last few weeks upon my ability to recognize God and his hand in my life.  I reaffirmed in my own heart once again that I see God most clearly in love: love I am given and love I give, from and to my friends, family, coworkers, neighbors and strangers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Briarpatch&#8217;s New Look</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to take a moment and introduce the new look on the Briarpatch.  I wanted to make it a little more user friendly and to utilize the 3 column gold standard for Wordpress.  I also wanted to add more of a Celtic flare.  And so with a splash of green, some Celtic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurgence of the Social Gospel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free health care. You&#8217;re thinking of Jesus,” jokes the popular comedian John Fugelsang.  While offered as a comedic reflection the reality of the jest is no laughing matter, at least not in American politics these days and certainly not in the pews of American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shepherd&#8217;s Heart Books and Gifts Reopens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve reopened our Ebay store, Shepherd&#8217;s Heart Books and Gifts.  For years now Shepherd&#8217;s Heart Books and Gifts has been a supplier of books new, used, and antique, as well as all things catholica.  It&#8217;s also offered a venue for us to sell books we publish ourselves through St. Willibrord Press.  As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Ministry in Second Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve embarked upon a new ministry in a largely undiscovered mission field, in a land on the fringes of society, and unexplored by many other Christian ministries.  You can&#8217;t get here by plane, train, automobile, nor boat.  This is a land so exotic and primitive that you can lose yourself and in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Does God Hate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Br'er Abbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking about the quote from Anne LaMott I posted the other day on my Facebook page. I noticed folks copied and pasted it all over the place. I myself had copied and pasted it from Bp. Mary Ann Croisant&#8217;s Facebook page. 
Here was the quote:
“You can safely assume that you&#8217;ve created God in [...]]]></description>
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