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		<title>Five years later</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one &#8220;real&#8221; class that I&#8217;m taking this semester is an Entrepreneurship class, which is really kind of a goal-setting and career-planning class &#8212; you know, the kind that almost every school offers in the last year or semester before graduation.  In some programs, it&#8217;s a mandatory class; this one isn&#8217;t, but it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First of many steps</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my start in the arts in church.  I sang in the kids&#8217; choir (which my mom directed), got my first speaking parts in musicals, and did special music on Sunday mornings, all starting from the time I was 5 years old.  My first full-length script was produced there; I started directing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gray</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that sometimes there's that same sort of confusion as it relates to the arts within the church &#8212; or work done by Christians outside of a specifically "church" setting.  Either the work is "Christian" or it's not.  Either the artist is proclaiming the Gospel (clearly and without ambiguity), or he's not.  People sometimes have a hard time understanding &#8212; and accepting &#8212; the fact that not all work that glorifies God is specifically about the cross or the manger.]]></description>
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		<title>More than Sunday School</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that most people who grow up in a particular church and remain there as adults can relate to the process of breaking away from the image of the kid in Sunday School and starting to be seen as an adult.  It can be even more pronounced when a) your family is involved in ministry and/or leadership throughout your life, and b) you end up in leadership roles within the church yourself.  It may be the worst for PKs (Pastors' Kids), but even for those of us whose families are in lay ministry, it gets kind of complicated at times.

That process is something that I've gone through, with varying degrees of angst, since I was in high school.  There are people there who remember when my mom was pregnant with me, and there have been times, when I've been in a leadership role over certain people, that have been kind of difficult, but it's part of the life cycle of ministry, and we all work through it in one way or another.  We find our place, and in 20 years or so, the cycle will repeat itself.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, it&#8217;s been quite the week around here.  Changes, opportunities, losses, gains, answered prayers, an inconsistent internet connection at home (putting at least three entries on hold while I contemplated throwing my laptop across the room to see if that would speed things up), and a fainting spell on the train, and it&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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