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	<description>Reflections on the Journey in Christ by Christopher Page</description>
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		<title>The Parking Virgin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is early in the afternoon. I am visiting a parishioner in the hospital. Usually, I ride my bike to the hospital; it makes parking so much easier. But these days, due to a knee injury, my bicycle stands neglected in the basement. Even with my pastoral care parking permit, finding a space for my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=5583&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pioneers of Forgiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is tempting when one has never been the victim of vicious violence or terrible injustice, to fall prey to the romantic notion that suffering inevitably ennobles the soul. It is not always so. In some cases those who have suffered terribly are left to wade through generations of bitterness, resentment, and anger. There seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=4974&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John 5:1-18 (#2) &#8211; The Untransformed Victim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The healed invalid in John 5:1-18 reminds me of Jonah. Jonah, was miraculously delivered by God, but he was not transformed. At the end of the book Jonah remained as vengeful, resentful, and xenophobic as he was at the beginning of the story. I am also reminded of the ten lepers who were healed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=5520&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Richard LeSeur: Clergy Day Homily &#8211; Conversion of St. Paul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent homily was preached at the opening Eucharist of our Diocesan Clergy Day this morning. It was preached by The Rev. Dr. Canon Richard LeSeur, Rector of St. George&#8217;s Cadboro Bay. He graciously sent me his notes which I have posted below. ***** Conversion of St. Paul : January 25, 2012 So let’s think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=5560&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healing In The Church &#8211; A Clergy Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine Healing and Liberal Christianity"]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pamela Klassen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spending the day with Professor Pamela Klassen and fifty Diocese of BC Clergy at a &#8220;Clergy Day&#8221;. Pamela Klaussen is a professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at U of T since 1997, most recent book, Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity, is published with University of California Press, 2011. Her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=5551&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Church of the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is that time of year again. Many organizations are preparing for annual meetings. The past year&#8217;s performance is being reviewed, numbers crunched, budgets prepared, visions for the future proposed. I am not a prophet. I lack the imagination to picture the future in any concrete terms. But this year, in one section of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=5271&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sermon Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while as a preacher, I receive a response to my sermon that stands out as particularly gratifying. Community of the Reconciliation: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003309037281 did you hear about this? reminds me of today&#8217;s sermon&#8230; or what i heard at the very beginning at least! Isn&#8217;t this amazing?:-&#124; ‎&#8221;In Washington DC , at a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=5534&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John 5:1-18 (#1) &#8211; Victim Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of Jesus healing an valid in John 5:1-18 is not a pleasant story. The contrast between the royal official at the end of chapter 4 and the invalid at the beginning of chapter 5, shows the invalid in a poor light. The royal official takes the initiative and seeks out Jesus; the invalid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=5511&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hurt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about hurt &#8211; not the hurt in my knee that is my faithful companion these days, but the more vague, unfocused, psychic emotional pain that grinds somewhere between my head and my gut. This is the hurt  I can carry for years. It is the hurt that can poison every hour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=4852&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Page</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, in reference to Jesus&#8217; words in John 4:34-38, I wrote that the task of the Christian life is not so much to exert our will to bring it into conformity with God&#8217;s will as it is to find where the Spirit of God is at work and enter into that work in cooperation with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12939873&amp;post=5455&amp;subd=inaspaciousplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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