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		<title>Following Jesus Everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Chang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In practical and academic theological circles it&#8217;s popular to ponder, write, consider, and act upon the meaning of following Jesus, especially following Jesus to the cross. You read scripture and start to realize going to the cross of Calvary means resisting death-dealing secular and religious bureaucratic and &#8220;other&#8221; assorted authorities, rejecting anything but love and justice as the measuring line, disallowing all that&#8217;s other than righteousness as the plumbline; after a few years of living out our baptism, we start discovering Resurrection Sunday morning is every bit as demanding as Good Friday afternoon. It&#8217;s easy to take pride in demonstrating visibly for ecclesiastically popular causes, maybe getting onto the evening news, feeling good about ourselves for sometimes getting too involved with concerns not popular with our local judicatories. Soundbite on the late night news, anyone? Spending a season with Mother Teresa&#8217;s peeps or serving Thanksgiving dinner at Father Joe&#8217;s place. Those bigger, more obvious, more stars-in-our-crowns activities. And for the most part, they&#8217;re all good. Often very good and life-transformative. But in the ambient heat and humidity of mid-summer 2012, I like to remember Jesus partying with friends and with strangers. A spontaneous feast because they&#8217;d hauled in a big... ]]></description>
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		<title>Paradox, Hope and Revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Chang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope is the synchroblog theme for this first month of the new year and as I talk about what gives me hope, how I keep returning to hope despite evidence and experience, why not begin by introducing myself for my first post on provoketive? A few weeks ago a Facebook friend status updated asking about our identity. Mine? I am a daughter of the church, claimed by God in baptism. And I added, &#8220;now what?&#8221; Last Wednesday evening I let myself into the dark church building to prepare for playing liturgy for our celebration of the Baptism of Jesus. As I always do, I walked toward the entry way and the baptismal font and as always, I signed myself with the cross. What gives me hope? I am baptized, sealed with the sign of the cross forever. Being baptized means an identity and lifestyle  shaped according to the contours, demands and relentless grace of the gospel that seeks justice, freedom and shalom for all creation. It is life sourced from Word and Sacrament, modeled by the order of creation, the actions and words of the prophets, the birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus the Christ. What gives me... ]]></description>
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