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		<title>Lifestyle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Around 5 years or so ago, when I was serving as a youth pastor, I used to throw around a personal motto or mantra: lex orandi, lex credendi.  The Latin means &#8220;the rule of prayer, is the rule of belief.&#8221;  My paraphrase became: &#8220;the way you worship is the way you live.&#8221; Worship used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck in White (missed Red &#8230; should be Green)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Easter (liturgical white) season has come and gone. The Pentecost (liturgical red) party is over. Now is the extraordinary span of Ordinary Time (liturgical green). That long green run into discipleship. Or at least it should be. But I&#8217;m still stuck on the day after Easter, staring at an empty tomb. After the hoopla and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brianniece.com/2010/06/10/stuck-in-white-missed-red-should-be-green/</link>
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		<title>A Lenten Confession: The Antonym of Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first Lenten season I&#8217;ve been unable to take large chunks of time for prayer and reflection. Having been in &#8220;professional ministry&#8221; (whatever that is) for the last many years, I was able to take half-days and whole days for reflection, silence, and meditation. During previous Lents, I have been able to move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brianniece.com/2010/03/26/a-lenten-confession-the-antonym-of-me/</link>
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		<title>Ash Wednesday Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the prayer I&#8217;m praying this day: Marked by Ashes Ruler of the Night, Guarantor of the day . . . This day — a gift from you. This day — like none other you have ever given, or we have ever received. This Wednesday dazzles us with gift and newness and possibility. This Wednesday burdens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brianniece.com/2010/02/17/ash-wednesday-prayer/</link>
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		<title>Season&#8217;s Greetings</title>
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		<link>http://www.brianniece.com/2009/12/22/seasons-greetings/</link>
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		<title>Church Carousel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compliments of a wonderful artist-illustrator at ABSO: Ah, the uncomfortable truth-in-jest &#8230; Related Posts: Still Detoxing Truthful Power God Producing God We Need Culture Change in the Church Being the Church Around a Meal]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brianniece.com/2009/10/23/church-carousel/</link>
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		<title>Still Detoxing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A co-conspirator of mine recently reminded me that institutional and cultural detox is painful but necessary. I would add, it likely is also a life-long process. Some days I wish I had taken the blue pill instead of the red one. In the movie The Matrix when Neo reaches for the red pill, Morpheus reminds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brianniece.com/2009/10/21/still-detoxing/</link>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Goodness Specified</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the past year I&#8217;ve spent in exile, I&#8217;ve dreamed of what will be when &#8230; &#8230;when we are in different surroundings, or &#8230;when we get back on our feet, or &#8230;when I start (and hopefully complete) my PhD work, or &#8230;when, when, when Each time that sense of longing for a different future arises, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brianniece.com/2009/09/16/gods-goodness-specified/</link>
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		<title>A Prayer from Oscar Romero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t get enough of this humble and life-giving prayer from a true Christian Anarchist: It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brianniece.com/2009/08/23/a-prayer-from-oscar-romero/</link>
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		<title>Morning Canticle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part of my morning prayer that I&#8217;ve repeated each morning this month. The repetition of this liturgy is doing something for me that is difficult to express. As part of my thanks to the Trinity, I share it with you, praying it might make your path a bit brighter: Christ, as a light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brianniece.com/2009/07/30/morning-canticle/</link>
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