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		<title>Is BFST objective or subjective?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend asked about where Bowen Family Systems Theory (BFST) fell in the divide between subjective and objective. It was an interesting question that led to some stimulating conversation. Personally, I&#8217;d put BFST more on the subjective-interpretive side. 
While some proponents of BFST claim it  to be &#8220;scientific&#8221; it is not so, rigorously speaking, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/1010</link>
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		<title>Now I’m an art critic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been invited to write a magazine article on artistic interpretations of biblical texts. I enthusiastically accepted the invitation from the editor. Given my lifelong interest in art in general, and religious art in particular, and the fact that I’ve never written (as well as I can recall) anything along these lines made the novelty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/1009</link>
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		<title>Basic rules for planning congregational education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague Marty and I have turned in our manuscript for the book on educational planning in the congregational context. This is the sit and wait stage before the next phase of editing. For me this is always a time of gratitude for the break from writing and anticipation toward finishing the work. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/1008</link>
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		<link>http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/883</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received this comment via an e-mail from a workshop participant some time ago:
Toward the end of the day you said something like, &#8220;certitude is the greatest obstacle to faith.&#8221;  Since you saved it for last, I am thinking it is one of our take-home points, but I am having trouble getting my arms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/1006</link>
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		<title>What’s in a name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague is making a change in his church staff position. He’s struggling with coming up with a new ministry job title. He says, “While I realize the main thing is how one functions, job titles are suggestive and important.”
He’s moving from a generalist position as Minister of Christian Formation, to a more focused ministry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/1007</link>
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		<link>http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/881</link>
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		<title>Analytcal and Intuitive thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A previous blog entry listed several types of thinking, including the common analytical and intuitive. Reflection on ones’ thinking, and learning about learning are important and useful activities. They can lead to a valuable kind of self-understanding with pragmatic applications (like what jobs you should avoid and what hobbies or pastimes may be more gratifying). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/1004</link>
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		<title>Another blog on blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once is a while someone asks how I manage to post a blog entry every day. My canned response is, “I try to have a thought every day, then, I write it down.” Blogging is a good exercise for aspiring writers who strive to live into the axioms, “A writer writes,” and, “the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/1003</link>
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		<title>Typewriters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though I have become dependent on the personal computer for both work and play I retain a fondness for typewriters (at this point one of my kids would say, “Typewriter? What’s that?”). Much of that has to do with the physicality of them as objects. Typewriters were a part of my growing up. My [...]]]></description>
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