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	<description>A Gathering on Beauty and the Gospel</description>
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		<title>Donald McGilchrist on the Art of Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rodsachs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Art encompasses the satisfaction of words well used.
Poetry and rhetoric and just plain stories are definitely part of our artistic heritage.
Most of life cannot be reduced to watertight propositions or exhaustively described.
Our finitude guarantees error, whether or not we realize our mistakes.
But from Homer onwards, words carry and describe our deep engagement with reality and [...]]]></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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