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		<title>What a Flooded Pakistan Needs Most and How You Can Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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[Ed. note: This article is part of our weekly series of church activities, called Cultivating Community, published on Thursdays.] 
 
 
Pakistan had already had a difficult summer by the time record amounts of monsoon rainfall deluged its several of its provinces and led to the humanitarian crisis currently debilitating the country. Pakistan’s government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Forgotten Pollution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matthew Sleeth
[Ed. note: This article is part of our series of weekly reflections, called Deep Down Things, published on Wednesdays.]
As an emergency room physician, I often worked 24-hour shifts. Emergency room doctors are not alone—today nearly one-fifth of the world population works in shifts.
Our regular patterns of waking and sleeping—called circadian rhythms—are fundamental to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable Creation Care: Sacrament and Desecration from Wendell Berry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kendra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration.
- Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land
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		<title>Toolshed: Canning the Summer Garden’s Gems</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kendra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christiana Peterson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christiana Peterson
Flourish magazine, Summer 2010
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Canning is a method of preserving food invented by a confectioner and brewer in 19th century France when the government offered money to anyone who could come up with a way to preserve large amounts of food for their armies. This method, which has remained largely unchanged since then, gradually spread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trash Your Cell Phone for Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kendra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You get a new one every two years, but what good is an old cell phone in the junk yard? Here's how your church can turn old electronics into new hope.]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable Creation Care: David Shi Explains What Simplicity Isn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So What&#8217;s the Big Deal with Plastic Water Bottles?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's no good reason to drink from disposable plastic water bottles.]]></description>
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		<title>Sprouts: Items of interest springing up in the creation care community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kendra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Tracey Bianchi about hugging trees AND people; a hopeful documentary about food, for once; and China's rise to energy infamy in this issue of Sprouts from Flourish magazine. ]]></description>
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		<title>Extending the Front Porch: Four Steps to Becoming a Bike-Friendly Church</title>
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		<comments>http://flourishonline.org/2010/08/extending-the-front-porch-four-steps-to-becoming-a-bike-friendly-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kendra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Churches are kind of like front porches--except that hardly anyone ever bikes to them. Here's an easy way to change that.]]></description>
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		<title>A Fecundity of Belief</title>
		<link>http://flourishonline.org/2010/08/a-fecundity-of-belief/</link>
		<comments>http://flourishonline.org/2010/08/a-fecundity-of-belief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kendra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deep Down Things]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some walks open more than just the eyes.]]></description>
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