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	<title>> Via Affirmativa </title>
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	<description>A Gathering on Beauty and the Gospel</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What is Via Affirmativa?</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/08/28/what-is-via-affirmativa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An international movement of Art Makers whose aim is:
&#8220;To rehumanize the world through the making of art&#8230;&#8221;  VAF
We do this:
When we celebrate goodness, truth, and beauty.
When we deepen our callings at the intersection of faith and art.
When we integrate our lives in community in the context of the Kingdom of God.
When we affirm expressions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What permission do I need to make art?</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/08/28/what-permission-do-i-need-to-make-art/</link>
		<comments>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/08/28/what-permission-do-i-need-to-make-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gbradleync</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Im reading &#8220;Blue Pastures,&#8221; by Mary Oliver, and this quote jumps off the page, grabs me by my reluctant neck, and says &#8220;Pay attention!&#8221; I hope it will grab your neck as well.
&#8220;&#8230;the most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to
creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and
uprising, and [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/08/19/a-meditation-on-excellence-in-the-arts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rodsachs</dc:creator>
		
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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>AMBITION by Sunita Puleo</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/08/02/ambition-by-sunita-puleo/</link>
		<comments>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/08/02/ambition-by-sunita-puleo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rodsachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Striving, trying
I can do it.  I will do it.
Just gimme a chance.  
I think that I could be
One of those that
Change the world.
 
I&#8217;ll turn them away from the dark side.  
I&#8217;ll make them see what&#8217;s right.
I&#8217;ll save them from the enemy.  
My victory is in sight.
 
Striving, trying
I can do it.  I will do it.
It&#8217;s harder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May the Excellence Still Flow</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/06/30/the-excellence-flowed-at-the-vaf-g3-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/06/30/the-excellence-flowed-at-the-vaf-g3-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rodsachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Via Affirmativa Summer 2008 Gathering is over &#8230; but is the excellence? Not hardly.
This year’s 110 guests, from Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and the U.S. filled the Colorado air with their music, art, drama, poetry and relationships, during our annual gathering held in the Springs. 
Featured guest presenter Makoto Fujimura shared with the community that
“We experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donald McGilchrist on the Art of Writing</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/06/02/donald-mcgilcrist-on-the-art-of-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/06/02/donald-mcgilcrist-on-the-art-of-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rodsachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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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>Incredible News!</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/04/11/incredible-news/</link>
		<comments>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/04/11/incredible-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rodsachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Via Affirmativa Gathering 2008 just may be thee art event of the summer! Click the names to discover more!
 
Makoto Fujimura, the internationally celebrated artist and Presidentially appointed Counsel Member for the National Endowment for the Arts, will be with us all day Saturday, as we explore this year’s Summer Gathering Theme: The Redemptive power of [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/03/26/a-collaboration-of-thoughts-on-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rodsachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Gary Bradley and Donald McGilchrist
 
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.
 
In &#8220;Art: A New History,&#8221; Paul Johnson writes, “The first point to grasp is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update and an Observation</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/03/10/update-and-an-observation/</link>
		<comments>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/03/10/update-and-an-observation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rodsachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[from Gary Bradley
A few days ago, I was reading in the holy book about the redemptive power of excellence. I observed that the word &#8216;excellence&#8217; occurs five times in the New Testament and that each time the idea is connected to &#8220;Character&#8221; or &#8220;Virtue.&#8221;
I find this important because I see that art makers are at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>by Elizabeth Webb</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/02/18/by-elizabeth-webb/</link>
		<comments>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/02/18/by-elizabeth-webb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rodsachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
it’s like
cloth that covers
my eyes
and stills my hands
my heart is beating
but no one sees
You stand before me
I see
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