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	<title>The Contemplative Crisis</title>
	<link>http://robculhane.com</link>
	<description>Christian contemplative spirituality intersecting with life in the suburbs</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>We need to recover the awareness that we are living as exiles</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=65</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Eschatology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Christian living]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We need a way of living with the fact, we are exiles. What do I mean by this exactly? Here in Australia, unless you are an Aborigine, we have come from somewhere else, and even they came from our north originally, thousands of years ago. To make matters worse, many of us have moved from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An archaeology of the (small) suburban church and its equivalent - the Emergent church.</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=64</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Emergent church]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Post Christian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I travel across Melbourne, I have frequently stumbled across the skeletons of former churches, lying half buried in the suburban landscape, half forgotten by all except perhaps a long term resident or those with the eyes  trained to see their ribs and frame still standing out from the renovations.  These former churches, once the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seriously, my lifestyle does have an impact on others</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=63</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Monasticism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Desert Fathers &amp; Mothers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Cassian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Benedict]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Australian culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A divorced friend of mine sent an email to me following a recent conversation. She had one additional thing which she forgot to mention at the time. It was: “. . . don&#8217;t you ever try anything so stupid .. or I will lose faith in men completely. (Her emphasis, not mine.) The ‘anything so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where do you experiece God&#8217;s salvation?</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=62</link>
		<comments>http://robculhane.com/?p=62#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Salvation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ignatius of Loyola]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where do you experience  God’s salvation? Normally the question would be: “Do you know how God’s salvation is offered to you in Christ?”  Or another question might be: “Where were you when you were saved?” Both these questions focus on knowing and experiencing salvation at some point in the past. However, we live in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s winter time - a place of quiet transformation</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=61</link>
		<comments>http://robculhane.com/?p=61#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Silence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s winter here and almost the shortest day of the year.  This season is associated with a mixtures of responses. I asked a group today on a ‘quiet day’ retreat what feelings and thoughts they associated with winter. Some said it reminded them of being rugged up in bed with a doona wrapped around them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We must listen to the voice in our other ear</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=60</link>
		<comments>http://robculhane.com/?p=60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Silence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have all been given two ears to listen with.
In one ear, we have heard the voice of those who criticise us and say, 
‘You’ll never be any good’, 
or that, ‘You messed that up’, 
or ‘You’ll never learn’, 
or ‘You’re not able to be a leader’.
It might have been our family which has told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praying with my hands held up by the trinity</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=58</link>
		<comments>http://robculhane.com/?p=58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 04:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Trinity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Psalms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is Trinity Sunday. It’s my turn to preach and so I have been mulling over the sermon throughout the week which will be about the trinity. This morning I was ruminating on the wooden box (on which I sit to pray and meditate most mornings in my bedroom), how the Father, the Son and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A short history of the Psalms - Postcard from Bologna, Italy</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=53</link>
		<comments>http://robculhane.com/?p=53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 09:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Monasticism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Psalms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend has recently arrived back in Australia from his studies in Bologna, Italy. This is his post.
One of the joys of undertaking doctoral studies in Bologna was the discovery of the university city’s many ‘gems’, in this case, the Olivetan Benedictine community of Santo Stefano in the heart of Bologna. The Olivetans are part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual directors come in all shapes and sizes</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=48</link>
		<comments>http://robculhane.com/?p=48#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 02:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Direction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maturity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having a spiritual director has  become a little like having your own therapist or your own personal trainer at the gym. “It gives one spiritual status”, notes Alan Jones in his forward to Margaret Guenther’s book, Holy Listening, p. viii.  Not all would share this benign view of the spiritual director. Some when they hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The body and prayer</title>
		<link>http://robculhane.com/?p=47</link>
		<comments>http://robculhane.com/?p=47#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liturgy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Holiness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Extreme ascetic practices have thankfully moved to the margins of church life. Some continue to exist, such as the re-enactment of the crucifixion in the Philippines and self flaguation. There are some who do not eat meat during Lent within even my own congregation. I am impressed by their commitment but prefer to offer prayer [...]]]></description>
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