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		<title>Guilt:  What is it good for?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine who is gay recently shared how he felt when he came out of the closet.  One of the first changes he noticed was in the way his body felt.  He had never realized that he’d spent most of his anxious life breathing shallow breaths.  He discovered that most people breathed deeply&#8211;from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/guilt-what-is-it-good-for/</link>
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		<title>A 2012 Invitation from the Pastor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the paralyzing gridlock in Congress to the painful divisions we experience in the Church of the Brethren, the past year has underscored the poisonous consequences of our disunity.  But I think there’s something each of us can do to make 2012 different. It’s no mystery as to why we are troubled.  Our economy is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/a-2012-invitation-from-the-pastor/</link>
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		<title>OK, it&#8217;s not a golden calf… it&#8217;s a bull.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard them described as `Cafeteria Catholics&#8217; for the way they personally select the church doctrines they will actually practice.   I&#8217;ve tended to hear it from scriptural literalists claiming to follow the `whole bible&#8217;, aimed at liberals who cherry pick their favorite teachings and ignore the rest. But when the Pope&#8217;s Council for Justice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/its-not-a-golden-calf%e2%80%a6-its-a-bull/</link>
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		<title>Moving out from behind the lens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that some people seem confused about who they are? At times, they fit neatly into our pre-conceived notions. Sometimes, not so much. I’ve even noticed some folks who seem to have difficulty distinguishing the person they know themselves to be from the person others see when they look at them. I’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/moving-out-from-behind-the-lens/</link>
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		<title>The Gifts of God’s Household</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been told the whole disagreement is completely unnecessary, that no other industrialized nation’s legislatures agonize over whether or not to stop borrowing the money they need to meet the financial promises they have already debated and made.  But apparently being completely unnecessary hasn’t made arriving at a compromise any easier. The bitter congressional fight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/the-gifts-of-god%e2%80%99s-household/</link>
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		<title>Lily&#8217;s dream of peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not every young American woman dreams of traveling to hostile nations to get to know their sworn enemies, but Lily Ghebrai is no ordinary young woman.  When dreams like this become realities, crazy things can happen. This spring, Lily joined a delegation of Seattle’s United Nations Association on a friendship tour of Iran.  That’s right, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/2461/</link>
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		<title>Get on board!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve heard the call before but we might have mistaken it for the hype with which we’re sometimes recruited to join some leadership team.  Yes, June is the month when the leaders we called in April take their places on our church board, but when we hear ‘Get on board!’ I hope our imaginations are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/get-on-board/</link>
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		<title>Post-Osama: the prospects for peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly ten years after the terrorist strikes of Sept. 2001, the news of Osama bin Laden’s death re-awakened strong feelings in our nation.  Grief, relief, anger, exuberance, fear, and dismay again took the stage of our public and private conversations.  Ten years ago, these played themselves out on television, in living rooms, classrooms, shops, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olympicchurch.org/uncategorized/post-osama-the-prospects-for-peace/</link>
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		<title>Go down, Moses&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Cairo to Tripoli, in Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain, and Abidjan the people&#8217;s resistance to repressive regimes has taken to the streets.  The strains of the great spiritual echo in my ears, `&#8230;tell ol&#8217; Pharaoh to let my people go!&#8217;  This is a time of hope and celebration, but as in any crisis danger accompanies opportunity.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/go-down-moses/</link>
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		<title>The Church of High-Fidelity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that the world of marketing is filled with hype.  The discerning comparative shopper must trudge through landscapes littered with phrases and acronyms, all designed to suggest that the products in question are using the latest and greatest technology.  Positrack, Solid-State, Full HD, 4WD, AWD, DiG!C4, LiveView, Clearvue, are just a few. [...]]]></description>
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