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	<description>We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.</description>
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		<title>On Fairy Tales</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was giving Ellis a bath when she told me, &#8220;You fight the choices [that] you make.&#8221; Sometimes I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m talking to a two-year old or some otherworldly sage. Lately she has been role-playing Rapunzel and insisting that the rest of us play along. I don&#8217;t know how many times &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/on-fairy-tales/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=469&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three things: First thing. Last Tuesday, over a week ago, I was in a forum where eight of us discussed the veracity of Christianity. Essentially, all the questions aimed at this idea, of whether Christianity is true or not. There were people all along the religious spectrum, if there is such a thing, and we &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/three-things/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=467&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Language and Lumberjacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Eugene Peterson&#8217;s memoir: True language has to do with communion, establishing a relationship that makes for life: love and faith and hope, forgiveness and salvation and justice. True language requires both a tongue and an ear…depersonalized, nonrelational, unlistening language kills. In the land of the living it is blasphemous, whether spoken from pulpits or &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/on-language-and-lumberjacks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=460&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>57:150</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is night, and there is snow on the ground and the trees. Walter Brueggemann speaks of the Psalms as prayers of dislocation and reorientation, and today has been a day of reorientation. May parents visited, and we went out to lunch before coming back to our house to talk: my sister&#8217;s upcoming trip to &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/57150/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=457&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terror and trust. I think if we were more honest, or less well-adjusted, or if our egos never came into being, we might be overcome more often by these two emotions. A first glance at this world and perhaps terror is where we would land: we land there upon first entering it, pulled from the &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/56150/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=454&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Automobiles and Internets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning, we all went out to breakfast. We drove to a new place, and I sat by Ellis as she squirmed in the booth, playing with the salt and tasting the jelly before dumping orange juice on herself (she never uses straws at home, and is accustomed to tipping cups). I tried to teach &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/of-automobiles-and-internets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=451&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>55:150</title>
		<link>http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/55150/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m partway through a novel that&#8217;s a (very, very) loose retelling of the Moses story. Of course, before we have Israel being delivered we have Moses&#8211;delivered through water, then wandering in the desert before finding (or, more appropriately, being given) purpose and action. As part of the writing process, I&#8217;ve had to examine themes in &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/55150/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=446&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>54:150</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psalm 54 is set when soon-to-be-King David is running from as-yet-present-King Saul. David is betrayed by the Ziphites. This is David’s life: anointed future King of Israel, defeater of Goliath, and now running for his life as Saul hunts him. When I sometimes wonder how David was seen as someone so close to God, despite &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/54150/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=440&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Seeing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across the table, my brother asked about a study he had read on creativity. The study asserted that people aren&#8217;t necessarily more or less &#8220;creative&#8221; in terms of their output; they are &#8220;creative&#8221; in terms of what they see. &#8220;Creative people,&#8221; he said, &#8220;see the world differently.&#8221; At the time, we were taking turns hitting &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/on-seeing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=436&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>53:150</title>
		<link>http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/53150/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Knipp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday I came home to find Ellis in a bad mood. Brooke made us dinner but Ellis cried at the table. She had skipped her afternoon nap, and each request of hers was a whine; when we asked her to use a polite voice, she cried. We ate, the slow and insistent grate of &#8230; <a href="http://gabrielknipp.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/53150/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabrielknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817733&amp;post=432&amp;subd=gabrielknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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