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	<description>:: steve taylor seeking a sustain-if-able spirituality with God/self/people/place/culture :: in process :: all thoughts personal and provisional</description>
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		<title>a big day: social innovation research funding bid</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/a-big-day-social-innovation-research-funding-bid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/a-big-day-social-innovation-research-funding-bid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I ticked off one of my study leave goals, submitting a funding bid to do some research into pioneering (social innovation) in Australia. It has involved a lot of work, a few late nights, some 5,000 words, spread over 26 pages of application and pulling together support from 4 different partners. The bid is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>is religion better or worse for society?</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/is-religion-better-or-worse-for-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/is-religion-better-or-worse-for-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[angelwings missional resourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian missiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gospel and culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A range of opinions regarding the public social good of religious institutions exist. • an “ivory tower” perception, in which religious organisations are judged to have no earthly focus, and thus little practical public good • a “culture destroyer” view, in which religious organisations are considered to be of toxic value to tolerance and goodwill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A theology for the &#8216;wild things&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/a-theology-for-the-wild-things/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/a-theology-for-the-wild-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[food for thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to place two &#8220;life moments&#8221; side by side, in order to help me reflect on the place of a theology of &#8216;wild things.&#8217; During the last few months, I&#8217;ve been part of a religious group exploring the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience. The list is such a positive, life-affirming list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mighty totara tree has fallen: death of Walter Wink</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/a-mighty-totara-tree-has-fallen-death-of-walter-wink/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/a-mighty-totara-tree-has-fallen-death-of-walter-wink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 02:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kua hinga he totara i te wao nui a Tane. A totara has fallen in the forest of Tane. A totara is a huge tree that grows for hundreds of years. For one of them to fall is a great tragedy. This proverb is said when someone of importance passes away. The Totara is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 great mission shaped ministry video resources</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/2-great-mission-shaped-ministry-video-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/2-great-mission-shaped-ministry-video-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 04:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[australian missiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mission shaped ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uniting college]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following the success of mission shaped ministry Adelaide in 2011, a creative and hardworking team are beavering away, working on a course for the 2nd half of this (2012) year. This includes a number of great video clips. Like this, a short 1 minute long video clip &#8211; single shot, creative use of an object, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Finding Faith&#8221; and the serendipities of study leave</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/finding-faith-and-the-serendipities-of-study-leave/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/finding-faith-and-the-serendipities-of-study-leave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An odd set of serendipities yesterday. I arrived home to find Richard Flory and Donald Miller&#8217;s Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation waiting for me. John Drane had recommended it to me, in light of some of my recent posts about faith and gender. On that recommendation, I ordered the book and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the haiku theology of Rowan Williams</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/the-haiku-theology-of-rowan-williams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/the-haiku-theology-of-rowan-williams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 02:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a while last year, I tried a spiritual practice, of making a 1 sentence prayer from my first waking experiences. It was an attempt to pay attention to God in the everyday, to (try and) keep me centred in simple places. Well, I am a babe, compared these six haiku offered by Archbishop Rowan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>spiritual direction, mission and what the heck then is church?</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/spiritual-direction-mission-and-what-the-heck-then-is-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/spiritual-direction-mission-and-what-the-heck-then-is-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[emerging church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging church and mission]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Natalie Weaver, a 25-year-old musician who lives in Roxbury, does not go to church. But every three weeks or so, she visits a white vinyl-sided building on Dorchester Avenue, a former convent, to meet with her spiritual director. Fascinating article in Boston Globe, looking at rise in popularity of spiritual direction. It notes a rise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a pioneer doctoring of ministry</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/a-pioneer-doctoring-of-ministry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/a-pioneer-doctoring-of-ministry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[uniting college]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/?p=3345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Pat Cronin, the first ever Doctor of Ministry at Adelaide College of Divinity. A pioneer! Pat did his thesis on adult conversion in the Catholic church and the discipleship processes that surround that. It is a fascinating study of ministry, of how the church is in mission, how it engages with people on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>faith of girls: more than a guy thing part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/faith-of-girls-more-than-a-guy-thing-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/faith-of-girls-more-than-a-guy-thing-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 01:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advent spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith in body image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forming families]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/?p=3344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do Lo-ruhamah in Hosea 1, Namaan&#8217;s wife&#8217;s slave girl in 2 Kings 5, the slave girl in Philippi in Acts 16, Jarius daughter in the Gospels, have in common? First, they are pre-pubescent girls. Second, they are agents of new theology. God is made more real, more understandable, more present, through these girls. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense making faith: taste</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/sense-making-faith-taste/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/sense-making-faith-taste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 12:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith in body image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality and life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/?p=3342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Creationary: a space to be creative with the lectionary (in this case, visual images on themes of pilgrimage). For more resources go here. This is superb. The power of the mouth, the potential of taste. That sense of intimacy, the way the mouth functions as useful, a barrier, sensual. It would be fabulous loop for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The durability of church in a culture of change</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/the-durability-of-church-in-a-culture-of-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/the-durability-of-church-in-a-culture-of-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 12:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[food for thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gospel and culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/?p=3340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1 &#8211; I got an iPad a few weeks ago. In order to transfer files between my Mac and the IPad, I joined Iwork. Only to get an email saying the Iwork I joined was a beta programme, was going to cease soon. So if I wanted to retain the files, I&#8217;d need to download [...]]]></description>
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		<title>faith development: more than a guy thing part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/faith-development-more-than-a-guy-thing-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/faith-development-more-than-a-guy-thing-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[re-imagining leadership formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and  ministry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/?p=3338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I raised some questions about the place of gender in faith development. I noted the work of Nichola Slee, Women&#8217;s Faith Development: Patterns and Processes. Her work emerges from interviews with 30 women, which resulted in some 1500 pages of transcribed interviews. She then read these narratives alongside a number of conversation partners &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>faith development: has to be more than a guy thing</title>
		<link>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/faith-development-is-it-a-gender-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/faith-development-is-it-a-gender-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 01:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spirituality and life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and  ministry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am working on a section of faith development. I began to reach mentally for my usual starting point, Peter. The journeyer &#8211; in the Gospels invited as follower (Luke 5); named as denier; commissioned as feeder (John 21). In Acts, the preacher, whom God&#8217;s Spirit calls out of the box. In Galatians, challenged [...]]]></description>
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