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	<title>> Via Affirmativa  &#187; Deep Thoughts</title>
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	<description>A Gathering on Beauty and the Gospel</description>
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		<title>A Meditation on Excellence in the Arts</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/08/19/a-meditation-on-excellence-in-the-arts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Christy Tenant
If I paint more excellently than any other, but I do not communicate love in my painting, I am nothing more than an offensive noise; like Pavarotti accompanied by an out-of-tune piano: a mockery of the beautiful.
If I possess divine insights and wisdom, and even if I have strong spiritual fortitude, but I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a collaboration of thoughts on art</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/03/26/a-collaboration-of-thoughts-on-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gary Bradley and Donald McGilchrist
Â 
Long before men could articulate their ideas in written form they captured the divine experience, the mysterious, with art. Cave paintings, rituals, voice sounds, instrumental sounds and gestures were among the many attempts to convey the
abstract.
Â 
In &#8220;Art: A New History,&#8221; Paul Johnson writes, â€œThe first point to grasp is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slipping Standing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bmk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Elizabeth Webb
Sometimes you slip on the ice a little.Â  Sometimes you climb that mountain feeling like nothing can slow your stride.Â  The ice has been a little dangerous lately, but being the survivor that I guess I am, what can I do but keep trying to climb that mountain, cross that impossible river and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of the work of our handsâ€¦</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bmk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Bradley recently spoke on this topic at the Minneapolis gathering.Â  The following is another reflection by Gary on the work of our hands&#8230;
â€œIf I knew the world was going to end tomorrow, I would plant a tree today&#8230;â€ Martin Luther
Psalm 90
 12        So teach us to consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frustrated Satisfyingly</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2007/05/10/frustrated-satisfyingly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bmk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[â€œThis is not a deskâ€ my freshman English professor explained while pointing directly to her large oak desk.Â  We all sat silently in our 8am class, some of us still in our pajamas, thinking that our professor probably said something that made sense; we were just too tired to know for sure.Â  She elaborated, â€œThat [...]]]></description>
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