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	<title>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</title>
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		<title>Why Congregations Are Stuck</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an &#8220;aha&#8221; this weekend about why many of our congregations seem so stuck. I attended a &#8220;Building and Empowering Communities&#8221; leadership training sponsored by VOICE, a group of congregations and institutions in northern Virginia that are doing community organizing around issues of affordable housing, immigration, and other issues. The tools of community organizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smartphones at the Breakfast Table?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something I wonder, as I think about faithful uses of technology. I agree with Sherry Turkle (author of Alone Together) that there should be certain zones that are smartphone-free. Sacred spaces, if you will, such as the carpool line or the dinner table. Places where we are focusing on the people we are sharing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marathon!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Body]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m registered for my first marathon&#8212;the Walt Disney World in January&#8212;and am starting to freak out about it. I&#8217;m also very excited. Disney is supposed to be a great beginners&#8217; marathon. The course is flat, the weather is usually mild, and it&#8217;s Disney, which means it will be well-run and entertaining. You have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Married to My Church, Are You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ministry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was with a group of folk from another congregation recently, introducing them to NEXT Church and talking about my involvement as co-chair. We got to talking about generational differences when it comes to membership in an institution, particularly a church. Millenials are way less wired toward joining a group in the sense of signing on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens in the Upper Room: A Case in Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s post about bidding farewell to children&#8217;s Sunday School at Tiny Church, in favor of the Upper Room and other activities. For several weeks in late April/early May we adapted the &#8220;ribbon ritual&#8221; that took place at the NEXT Conference in Charlotte in March. At Tiny Church, the ritual built over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Letting Go of Sunday School</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sunday School movement began in the 1780s to provide education to children working in factories&#8212;children who were not receiving any other formal education. Teachers shared lessons on Christian religion, but also things like reading, sports, and drama. Today, more and more people are asking whether Sunday School is nearing the end of its life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anyway You Go You&#8217;re Gonna Get There</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I reflect on 10 years of pastoral ministry, I&#8217;ve been talking with friends who are discerning God&#8217;s call and job shifts, and it&#8217;s got me thinking about U2. Some years back there was an article (can&#8217;t find it) that talked about what the guys from Dublin would have done with their lives had they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lernen durch Fehler. Learning through Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I have no idea if the German is right&#8212;that&#8217;s what Google translator came up with.) My latest micro-obsession is Duolingo, an app that teaches foreign languages through a quiz-based game. It&#8217;s a nice interface, and the different question formats keep things interesting. I&#8217;ve taken a ridiculous amount of Spanish, but the game has helped me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sabbath as a Time for Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 00:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fasting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love hearing from readers about the connections they make as they read Sabbath in the Suburbs. Like this tidbit I received via email: Reading the book also helped me recall a habit of Larry Hagman&#8217;s: One of his strangest habits, which continued for some years, was not speaking on Sundays. His silence had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Years In</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 18:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn McKibben Dana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[milestones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday is the 10th anniversary of my ordination in the Presbyterian Church (USA). 2003 was a hell of a year. My father died, I had my first child, I graduated from seminary, we moved to Northern Virginia, I was ordained, I took my first pastoral position, and we moved a second time, into the [...]]]></description>
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