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		<title>Jan Phillips in N. Scottsdale Sunday, February 26th</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, February 26th Jan will be preaching at 9:30 on &#8220;Turning Our Faith Inside Out&#8221; and teaching at 11:00 on &#8220;Being Evolutionaries&#8221;. Via de Cristo United Methodist Fellowship, 7430 E. Pinnacle Peak Road, Scottsdale AZ 85255, 480-515-4490 or azfct@cox.net Jan writes in her book: These are no ordinary times. We are witnessing and participating in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responses to Rachel Held Evans&#8217; Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before her presentation for AzFCT on &#8220;Evolving Faith&#8217; Rachel asked two questions on her blog: 1. What made you leave, or consider leaving, the Church?  (or, What made you stay?) 2. In what practical ways would you like to see folks from older generations come alongside us as we evolve and make our faith our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Ordinary Time: The Rise of Spiritual Intelligence and Evolutionary Creativity&#8211;February 24-25</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[            No Ordinary Time: The Rise of Spiritual Intelligence and Evolutionary Creativity with author/artist/activist  Jan Phillips.  Many momentous things have happened to you in your life and each one of them is grist for your creative mill. Each one has provided you with the raw materials to create a life that is meaningful, joyful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It’s possible to avoid God-talk for long stretches of time. Any canny Christian can do that, in order to make friends and influence people. Or just to get relief from bad clichés. But, at a certain point, one has to face up to the profundity and brilliance of the conceptual work that was done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rachel Held Evans&#8211;January 21, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Held Evans is an award-winning author and popular blogger from Dayton, Tennessee—home of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. Rachel’s first book, Evolving in Monkey Town explores the relationship between faith and doubt and recounts the challenges of asking tough questions about Christianity in the context of the Bible Belt. She says, &#8221;It&#8217;s about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God After Darwin: Evolution, Christian Faith and Spirituality,    November 4&#8211;5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the popular media, evolution and religion are portrayed as engaged in a war to the death; one must die so that the other can be pronounced the victor. But is there really no place for God after Darwin?  In this series of lectures, round table discussions, and dialogues with the audience, Philip Clayton explores the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel According to Science &#8211; Michael Dowd in dialogue with Michael Morwood&#8211;         November 13th, 6:00 pm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Seek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution, will discuss how understanding evolution can be the basis for a deeply inspiring and meaningful view of our place in the cosmos. His multimedia presentation reveals how a sacred science-based understanding of human nature, death, and the trajectory of big history can offer a realistically hopeful and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Tent Christianity</title>
		<link>http://www.azfct.org/2011/06/big-tent-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Tent Christianity-Phoenix in February 2011 was a convergence of new and old ways of being and becoming the Church: progressive and emergent, denominational and non-denominational, large and small faith communities, describable and undescribable. Bringing people together from across the country to proclaim what unites us as followers of Jesus in this modern world, BTX showcased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop John Shelby Spong</title>
		<link>http://www.azfct.org/2010/02/bishop-john-shelby-spong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beyond Theism But Not Beyond God; Jesus: Beyond Incarnation But Not Beyond Divine. The DVD of Bishop Spong&#8217;s visit here in 2010 is now available through our store. He comments, &#8220;In my recent study leading to my book on life after death, Eternal Life: A New Vision,  I had to move into a new and different understanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marcus Borg: Speaking Christian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcus Borg, Speaking Christian: A Misunderstood Language. In the DVD available through our store Borg says that being Christian includes using and understanding Christian language, yet many crucial Christian words are seriously misunderstood in our time. Words such as savior, salvation, redemption, righteousness, repentance and sacrifice have lost their original, rich meanings. How do we [...]]]></description>
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