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	<title>The Just Life &#187; The Environment</title>
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		<title>Learning and practicing respect for the earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book, Serve God Save the Planet, has helped teach me some things. I read the first chapter and set the book aside for over a month. I wasn’t ready to change and I didn’t want to be convicted about my lifestyle. I thought I was living a life with a relatively low carbon footprint. I didn’t think I really ...]]></description>
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		<title>Respecting this beautiful place</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works.” Psalm 145:5 The South American country of Bolivia is filled with incredible beauty that is matched only by the beautiful people who live there. My wife and I had the privilege of going there twice last year, as we developed a partnership with Compassion International ...]]></description>
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		<title>March 18 – Community Church Edgewater</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2012/02/04/march-18-%e2%80%93-community-church-edgewater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago, IL Dr. Sleeth will be preaching at the Community Church Edgewater at 6 p.m. The church meets at the EDGE Gallery on 6318 N. Clark St. in Chicago. Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>Creation Care New Year Resolution (2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>April 22 – National Cathedral</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2012/01/26/april-22-%e2%80%93-national-cathedral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC Dr. Matthew Sleeth will be preaching at both Earth Day services at the National Cathedral. In between the services, Dr. Sleeth will interview Wendell Berry at the Cathedral Forum and seminary presidents will sign the Seminary Stewardship Alliance Covenant, officially launching the Blessed Earth Seminary Stewardship Alliance. Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>April 10-12 – Q Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC Nancy Sleeth will be presenting a workshop at the Q Conference in DC. More details TBA. Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>April 1 – University UMC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syracuse, NY Brian Webb, Blessed Earth&#8217;s Director of Educational Programming, will be preaching at University United Methodist Church in Syracuse. Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>March 31 – Ohio Earthkeeping Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columbus, OH Nancy will be delivering one of the keynote addresses at the Ohio Earthkeeping Summit (co-sponsored by Ohio Interfaith Power &#038; Light and Ohio State University&#8217;s School of Environment and Natural Resources). She will also be teaching a workshop on &#8220;Rest.&#8221; The summit will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. More details TBD. Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>April 4 – First Christian Frankfort</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankfort, KY Nancy Sleeth will be speaking about her new book, Almost Amish, at First Christian Frankfort&#8217;s Wednesday evening fellowship. The meal will begin at 5:30 and Nancy will speak at 6:15 p.m. Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>Feb 8 – First Christian Frankfort</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2012/01/10/feb-8-%e2%80%93-first-christian-frankfort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankfort, KY Matthew and Nancy Sleeth will be speaking at the Wednesday evening fellowship at First Christian Church, Frankfort. The fellowship meal is at 5:30 and Dr. Sleeth will speak at 6:15 p.m. Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>April 14 – Church of the Brethren</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2012/01/03/april-14-%e2%80%93-church-of-the-brethren/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, NY Nancy and Emma will be speaking at a Church of the Brethren conference for young people. Read full original post.]]></description>
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		<title>Creation Care New Year’s Resolutions for 2012</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2012/01/03/creation-care-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions-for-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://thejustlife.org/home/2012/01/03/creation-care-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions-for-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We invite you to join us in making creation care New Year’s resolutions for 2012. Register you commitment in the comments section below and if you use Facebook, please share your resolution on our Blessed Earth page too! &#160; The first ten people to register their Creation Care New Year&#8217;s resolution will receive a free copy of Go Green, Save Green by ...]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Update and Blessing</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/12/13/christmas-update-and-blessing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Compromising or Selling Out?  A Creation Care Christmas.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I’m feeling pretty virtuous.  I buy 100 percent renewable electricity from the Energy Cooperative in Philadelphia; it’s the real deal, all wind and solar with a smidge of low-impact hydroelectric.  So, when I switch on my Christmas lights, watch TV or run the central heating, I have a no-carbon, ultra-low pollution footprint. And it’s the same price as the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sabbath in a 24/7 World</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/12/08/sabbath-in-a-247-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Dr. Sleeth shared some reflections on the fourth commandment &#8212; remembering the Sabbath &#8212; with medical students at the University of Kentucky.   It was clear that the message he shared was both a gift and a challenge to this hard working group of young people. The gift: to be reminded we are created by a loving ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tree Planting Project</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/12/07/tree-planting-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How the Blessed Earth Series Changed My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first watched the presentation about Sabbath rest by Matthew Sleeth about a year ago (Session #7 in the Blessed Earth Film Series).  At that time I knew it was something I should take seriously but instead I continued with my hectic pace. A few months later, I watched the video again as I was preparing to teach the session ...]]></description>
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		<title>Consuming Less and Sharing More</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/12/06/consuming-less-and-sharing-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, my husband looked like an angel to me, up to his elbows in dishwater, scrubbing a seemingly endless stream of commercial-sized pots and pans. On Monday nights, we attend a worship service, take communion, and feed those in need.  After the shared meal, we help distribute donated food.  It&#8217;s become a regular highlight of our week. On this ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Place</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/11/30/the-gift-of-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To love a place is to care for it, to keep it healthy, to attend to its needs as if they were my own, because they are my own.  Responsibility grows from love.  It is the natural shape of caring.&#8221; (Kathleen Dean Moore) As Christians catch a vision for creation care they are often inspired to take responsibility for their ...]]></description>
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		<title>Save Our Hemlocks</title>
		<link>http://thejustlife.org/home/2011/11/22/save-our-hemlocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I go among trees and sit still.”  Thus begins Wendell Berry’s cycle of “Sabbath Poems,” conceived and written, according to Berry, in silence, solitude, and often in the outdoors.  Berry’s reflection flows naturally from the directive of Psalm 46 to “be still and know that I am God.”  The reality and majesty of God are dramatically discernable in the lush ...]]></description>
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