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		<title>What a Trip!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My spouse has never been enamored with train travel. It is probably due to some bad experiences traveling to and from college by train. I, however, love traveling the rails. There is something soothing to me about the rocking, the repetitive noises and the ability to stroll from one end of the train to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbucc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13183812&amp;post=122&amp;subd=urbucc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tolerance Is not Enough</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We welcome into this community of faith, in all aspects of church life, persons of every race, gender, nationality, ability, and sexual orientation; AND we will continue our efforts toward inclusiveness, and stand against all forms of discrimination. This adaptation of Urbandale UCC&#8217;s Open and Affirming statement, offered by the Discernment Team in May of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbucc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13183812&amp;post=118&amp;subd=urbucc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting the Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, I was sorting through some papers at the church and ran across (again!) the Open and Affirming Statement. It was something familiar to me and yet this version was different! There was some additional text! Now, as a pastor, I deal with texts all of the time. I am familiar with how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbucc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13183812&amp;post=115&amp;subd=urbucc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer for a Common Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In unpacking boxes and files, I ran across something that I think was culled from another church&#8217;s newsletter a long time ago. It is a prayer attributed to Eleanor Rooseveldt, but I have not been able so far to verify that she is the author or that it is an accurate quote. One sentence in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbucc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13183812&amp;post=109&amp;subd=urbucc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[If those of us who have written these reflections on &#8220;Come to the Table&#8221; have done our job, you have been challenged and stimulated, had your faith deepened and renewed and have begun to develop a renewed sense of what it means to be a Christian and member of Urbandale UCC.  Unfortunately for me, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbucc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13183812&amp;post=68&amp;subd=urbucc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 05:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher Beecher has a way of making those two handles sound evenly matched, equally accessible to us all. But are they? Anxiety has a way of creeping into our systems before we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbucc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13183812&amp;post=65&amp;subd=urbucc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 05:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this phrase and the possibilities that are wrapped up in this simple yet profound invitation.  When I think of coming to the table my mind first wanders to the kitchen tables of my childhood.  My family was always found around someone’s table sharing food and laughter.  I observed many of my family and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbucc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13183812&amp;post=63&amp;subd=urbucc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome All Who Roam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 05:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jane Robinette]]></category>

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		<title>Foundation of Our Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 06:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a small Franciscan church in Nazareth, built in 1861. Within the church is a large slab of rock that according to tradition is the rock on which Jesus dined with his disciples after he had risen. This “communion table” looks nothing like the images created by artists over the centuries or our own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbucc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13183812&amp;post=78&amp;subd=urbucc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family Dinner Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 05:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image of the dining room table has been at the forefront of my thoughts since last December, when my husband Jeff and I decided it was finally time to “grow up” and replace the tiny dining room table that we originally purchased for our first apartment with a larger table at which we could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbucc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13183812&amp;post=61&amp;subd=urbucc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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