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		<title>Where the wind comes from&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/17/where-the-wind-comes-from/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. John 3;8 A few months ago, my friend (and former next door neighbour) Terry, looked up at the pointy bit of our house [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8955&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>William- almost 13&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/16/william-almost-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bugsy Malone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow William becomes a teenager. Gulp. Last night he had a party- themed around Bugsy Malone gangster stuff. Everyone came dressed as a gangster or a moll, and after loads of food, music and watching the film on a big screen, everyone went outside to have a massive custard pie and water pistol fight. They [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8943&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rohr on the relationship between silence and compassion&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/15/rohr-on-the-relationship-between-silence-and-compassion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is raining today (here at least) and so you can&#8217;t be in the garden. The cricket and tennis are rained off and there is no point watching replays. So instead, take some time to listen to Richard Rohr speaking about how silence equips us to find the ways of justice. I went on an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8935&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rohr on outsiders&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/14/rohr-on-outsiders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[including the outsider]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Maggy sent me a quote today by the man speaking above- Richard Rohr. It hit the spot for several reasons. Firstly, Rohr usually has something interesting to say, and his take on the role of the outsider as a source of renewal to the church feels like something important. Important too as another [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8932&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty UK, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/13/poverty-uk-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barnardo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; image from The Guardian There have been a series of stories in the press over the past few months, setting an agenda that goes something like this; Austerity is necessary, we all need to pull in our belts for the sake of the nation Poverty is avoidable if you work hard. Only those who [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8929&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The big city&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/12/the-big-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[glasgow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today both Michaela and I were in Glasgow for different reasons. I had some work meetings to go to, she was speaking at a conference, so stayed over the night before in a posh hotel. I really enjoy walking around cities these days- looking at buildings and watching people. I spent some time around Trongate- [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8925&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamentalism&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/11/fundamentalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christian fundamentalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;acceptance of pluralism relativises truth. Once it is allowed that there are different paths to truth, a person&#8217;s religious allegiance becomes a matter of choice, and choice is the enemy of absolutism. Fundamentalism is one response to the crisis of faith brought about by awareness of differences&#8230; This from here. (Emphasis mine.) I read this recently [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8920&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The next generation of garden grazers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/10/the-next-generation-of-garden-grazers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dunoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and try as I might, I can not resent them for the plants that I know they will destroy. I looked out of the front door a few minutes ago and there were two tiny fauns on the driveway, still covered in their lines of camouflage spots and speckles to hide them from the wolves [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8910&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cynicism&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/09/cynicism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it that makes cynicism seem like common sense? How come cynicism is the attitude that seems most socially proscribed and enforced? Why is it socially safer to sneer rather than enthuse? Think about it- that place of cynical distance we hide behind- or is it just me?  Despite myself, with a random assortment [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8907&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piano&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.com/2013/06/08/piano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 21:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piano &#160; She walked through the shafts of dusty light And lifted the lid on the old black piano Severe of face, each hair disciplined I groaned Thinking of those teachers, though competent Who purge passion from their music Like a nun might deal with lust &#160; The chapel breathed as she began to play [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.com&#038;blog=4092763&#038;post=8905&#038;subd=thisfragiletent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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