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	<title>Belief Stages and Growth</title>
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	<description>...stories of growth and stages of belief...</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Freedom of Religion or Freedom from Oppression?</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/20/freedom-of-religion-or-freedom-from-oppression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I saw an article in World Wide Religious News (http://wwrn.org/article.php?idd=29090) that said in France they are denying citizenship to a particular Moroccan woman because she wears a burqa.  &#8220;The Moroccan woman, Faiza M, was told that her practice of &#8220;radical&#8221; Islam was not compatible with French values. &#8221; the article said. 
I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PZMyers and the stolen Eucharistic Host - as seen by Margaret Johnston</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/14/pzmyers-and-the-stolen-eucharistic-host-as-seen-by-margaret-johnston/</link>
		<comments>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/14/pzmyers-and-the-stolen-eucharistic-host-as-seen-by-margaret-johnston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You heard in the news last week about the college kid who stole a Eucharistic Host after receiving communion in a Catholic Church?  (The article appears here http://www.wftv.com/news/16798008/detail.html and http://www.wftv.com/news/16806050/detail.html.)
And the Catholic Church was of course in an uproar about this.  And then this blogger, PZ Myers 
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		<title>Called to Question - a Mystic&#8217;s Musings About her Faith</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/13/called-to-question-a-mystics-musings-about-her-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/13/called-to-question-a-mystics-musings-about-her-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading &#8220;Called to Question&#8221; by Siser Joan Chittister, a true Mystic if ever there was one.  Since she is a nun, she of course started out as a traditional believer.  The whole book expounds on a personal journal she wrote during a phase when she was questioning her faith.  There are no particular entries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technorati link</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/09/technorati-link/</link>
		<comments>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/09/technorati-link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;a href=&#8221;http://technorati.com/claim/ibtihd34&#8221; rel=&#8221;me&#8221;&#62;Technorati Profile&#60;/a&#62;
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		<title>Are We Really All One?   by blog author, Margaret Johnston</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/08/are-we-really-all-one-by-blog-author-margaret-johnston/</link>
		<comments>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/08/are-we-really-all-one-by-blog-author-margaret-johnston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are We Really All One? 
More and more these days we hear instances of people saying they have come to realize that We All Are One.  Some of these people have just latched onto the concept in an artificial sense after hearing about it elsewhere.  Others reportedly have actually experienced
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		<title>get a load &#8216;a this guy!</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/05/get-a-load-a-this-guy/</link>
		<comments>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/05/get-a-load-a-this-guy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My younger son Tony is taking an online English course through his university this summer.  He says the prof has the class &#8220;in a very cumbersome world of belief and spirtual readings now.&#8221; (Tony&#8217;s words.  I hope the prof isn&#8217;t reading this!) But he was sure I would be interested in one of the assigned readings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheist Spirituality</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/07/01/atheist-spirituality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com really has me pegged!  You know how when you buy one book from them a message always pops up saying &#8220;people who bought that book also bought this other one!&#8221; Well, now they have taken to sending me an E-mail every so often saying they are sure I would be interested in such and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-introducing myself&#8230;..   by Margaret Johnston</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/06/30/re-introducing-myself-by-margaret-johnston/</link>
		<comments>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/06/30/re-introducing-myself-by-margaret-johnston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I have not given up on my blog.  I had the chance to travel to Alaska for six weeks to visit my husband.  He has been called up to Active Duty in the Army and is spending the better part of a year in Fairbanks.  I was lucky enough to get time off from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystic</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/05/26/the-mystic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a stage many people never reach at any age.  While there are no statistics on what percentage of people ever reach the Mystical level, we can assume it would be somewhat rare before middle age.  Most likely it is more typical of older people who have had time to let all their life experiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rational</title>
		<link>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/05/26/the-rational/</link>
		<comments>http://beliefstagesandgrowth.com/blog/2008/05/26/the-rational/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Various authors differ as to when the Rational stage tends to arise.  Apparently  in some cases it arises late in adolescence but often can be delayed until mid-adulthood or even permanently.
The Rational Stage is more or less equivalent to Peck’s Stage III which he named the Skeptic, Individual Stage.  He called them Skeptic because they [...]]]></description>
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