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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;re with Me&#8230;.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://megsmusings.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/youre_with_me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a scene in The Shack where Mack and Jesus are out on the dock in the evening, enjoying the stars. Mack imagines he could reach out and pluck diamonds off a velvet black sky:
&#8220;Wow!&#8221; he whispered. 
&#8220;Incredible!&#8221; Whispered Jesus&#8230;&#8221;I never get tired of this&#8230;&#8221;
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		<title>Does this resonate&#8230;.?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legalism vs grace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donna at &#8220;Stop Spiritual Abuse&#8221; posted this. (It&#8217;s really short, about 2 minutes.) 
 
I wonder if it resonates with you? It doesn&#8217;t with me, so much, but I can see how it might with some folks. In the Assembly I never &#8220;overcame&#8221; enough to get to this point. But maybe that was just me? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&blog=1042109&post=566&subd=megsmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two great quotes from Christian Recovery Forums over at Spiritual Abuse Recovery Resources: 
&#8220;Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron&#8217;s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&blog=1042109&post=559&subd=megsmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Kreeft&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Assembly reflections website we have an excerpt from Peter Kreeft&#8217;s very, very helpful book, Making Sense out of Suffering. Even better, on his website there are MP3&#8217;s of his very listenable lectures available free of charge, including one on this same subject, and another entitled Shining Light on the Dark Side.  Three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&blog=1042109&post=520&subd=megsmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why call it &#8220;cultic&#8221;?&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://megsmusings.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/why-call-it-cultic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abusive church leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Assembly experience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick addendum to the previous discussion on the book Not of My Making. I was horrified at the treatment Maggie Jones received in three different churches. Those churches were not cults; they were just your normal boulevard church. So if even ordinary churches can sometimes be so hurtful, why do we imply that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&blog=1042109&post=445&subd=megsmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Monk on parenting teens&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://megsmusings.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/the-internet-monk-on-parenting-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly kids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iMonk posted some thoughts and questions for parents on Fathers&#8217; Day. Good stuff, as usual. He talks about the implications of the wired world, the question of your own deepest values that shape your every day life, the peril of flash-in-the-pan evangelicalism. Point 1 is about entitlement. That is probably a tough one for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&blog=1042109&post=477&subd=megsmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Just carry on&#8221;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://megsmusings.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/just-carry-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Just carry on&#8221; is one of the cards in The Oblique Strategies by Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno. Haven&#8217;t seen the set of cards, but I ran across this quote just now, and was surprised how a load suddenly felt lifted. Hmmm, wonder what that could be about&#8230;.Even though I&#8217;ve consciously rejected the performance-based life, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&blog=1042109&post=467&subd=megsmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jones&#8217; answer&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://megsmusings.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/dr-jones-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abusive church leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday I posted my question to Dr. Jones regarding her book, Not of My Making: Bullying, Scapegoating and Misconduct in Churches. 
Here is Dr. Jones&#8217; reply:
Margaret Irons asked me, “What can persons who have formerly been abusive do now to make amends and help their former victims (with whom they are no longer in regular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&blog=1042109&post=444&subd=megsmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual book tour&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://megsmusings.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/virtual-book-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Margaret W. Jones, author of Not of My Making: Bullying, Scapegoating and Misconduct in Churches, will stop by here Monday on her virtual book tour to answer questions. One question I have for her is this: What can persons who have formerly bullied folks and been abusive do now to make amends to their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&blog=1042109&post=434&subd=megsmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not of my Making&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not of My Making: Bullying, Scapegoating and Misconduct in Churches is an account of Dr. Margaret W. Jones&#8217; abusive church experiences. I was sent a copy of the book and invited to take part in Dr. Jones&#8217; virtual book tour. I am glad I read it. 
In brief, Not of My Making is about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&blog=1042109&post=423&subd=megsmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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