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		<title>inspiral&#8217;s contribution to the Defence White Paper public consultations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is Anthony Nicholas. I am speaking on behalf of Inspiral, a faith community in the inner north of Melbourne, Australia, who are exploring together the radical way of life demonstrated by Jesus Christ. We have been asked to address three questions: 1) What role should our armed forces play? 2) What kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;kids church&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the lectionary reading for this week was, &#8220;At that time Jesus said, &#8220;I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.&#8221; So we handed today over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sacrifice of Isaac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Started with the context of the passage &#8211; that of child sacrifice and the history of sacrifice in Jewish culture (this is the first sacrifice on Mt Moriah, which becomes the site of the temple). Discussion ranged over a whole lot of territory, from Girard&#8217;s mimetic violence theory to this speculative version of the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>not peace, but division</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discussion centred around the call to &#8220;not be ashamed&#8221;, with many of us expressing the misunderstandings inherent in terms such as &#8220;Christian&#8221; or &#8220;church&#8221; for the average punter, especially those of us whose circles are not friendly to such ideas. Finished with an acknowledgment of the potential relational costs of fidelity to Christ.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thus Jesus sends his disciples out to go, not to &#8220;all the world&#8221; but only to &#8220;the lost sheep of the house of Israel&#8221;. So we could get a sense of what this must have been like I sent everyone out (including myself) with the same instructions&#8230;what would we come up with? Well, firstly it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proper 5A&#8230;excuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Focussed on the lectionary readings this week, including the stories of Abram&#8217;s call and obedience, further expounded in the Romans passage, and then onto the call of Levi followed by the sandwiched stories of the synagogue leader&#8217;s daughter and the woman with the bleeding. Fantastic post on that stuff here. Mainly focussed on the fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dunstan St blessing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Started this week with a party to celebrate of Mark&#8217;s 6 months of sobriety. Great effort mate, and great to be able to celebrate the milestone as a mob. A &#8217;6&#8242; party complete with gifts of a &#8217;6&#8242; nature &#8211; from a 6 cake to my 6 (squared) reasons for celebrating 6, including: Reason #8: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the abundant economy of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the lectionary reading this week was the famous &#8220;do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink&#8230;&#8221; from the Sermon on the Mount, I decided it was time to introduce dumpster diving as a practical way we can enter the abundant economy of God (while helping reduce some of the waste [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inspiral.org.au/WordPress/?p=261</link>
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		<title>Trinity Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we explored the idea of the Trinity. It&#8217;s a tricky day, Trinity Sunday, the only feast day that celebrates a doctrine (and a fairly complex and mysterious one at that). So we decided we&#8217;d re-run the Arian controversy to explore some of the ideas that surround it. Team Arius argued that Jesus could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inspiral.org.au/WordPress/?p=260</link>
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		<title>Pentecost 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent some time looking at two readings, and what stood out for us was the practice of unity in diversity &#8211; that Pentecost was essentially the undoing of Babel, where everyone was separated and scattered, and the 1 Corinthians passage is about a bunch of different people all being part of the one body&#8230;so, [...]]]></description>
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