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		<title>Crisis of Faith: Can You Help Me Out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been going through a very strange change, lately. I don’t know if it’s a change necessarily or just a potential change. It feels like a crisis of faith, though perhaps that’s a bit melodramatic. It feels embarrassing, too, but maybe that’s only because I’m telling you about it. Lately, I’ve been wondering about my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=108&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Violent words and the blood on your hands:</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all heard it: sticks and stones may break my bones and whatnot. And, yes, we’ve all heard the twist (but words will hurt me!). But, I’d like to add another entry in the age-old sticks, stones and words volume, and that is this: Sticks and stones will break people’s bones when you use your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=102&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t like your tone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes yours. Okay, maybe not yours. But definitely that guy who came here before you. Okay maybe not his either…but someone’s. Many someones. It’s been a long time since my last post. A very long time, indeed. I’ve been relatively silent for a few reasons: 1.) annoyance 2.) preoccupation with other things 3.) lack of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=99&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Am I really living up to the teachings of Jesus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 07:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been meditating on a few verses about murder in Matthew that have made me realize, once again, the serious challenge of Jesus’ teachings. Here are the verses, courtesy of the NIV translation and Bible Gateway:   &#8220;You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, &#8216;Do not murder, and anyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=96&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CNN: Religious Americans Support Torture (Oh, and by Religious Americans, we mean 400 white people)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 18:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See, CNN? I can make headlines, too. I usually try to avoid bandwagon things (note the lack of blonde beauty queen references on this blog), but I feel compelled to comment on yesterday’s CNN article about religious people’s views on torture.   The reason I feel compelled to comment is not because I’m sad that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=93&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Question of Perfection and a Little More Backstory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the same person I was when I wrote this&#8211;not the same Christian, either&#8211;but I think it&#8217;s worth sharing. This piece was written as I was dealing with sex, impurity and questions of perfection as a college student.   Though some of this may be a little graphic or &#8220;inappropriate,&#8221; I feel that if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=79&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Back-Story Pieces of a Christian Girl&#8217;s Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ll oblige me, I would like to share a bit about my religious journey. It&#8217;s a lot about youth groups and rules and sex and breaking &#8220;sex rules.&#8221; I&#8217;m telling you this upfront so that if you aren&#8217;t interested I will have spared you a bit of a read.   If you are interested, I&#8217;d [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=74&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conformity VS Unity: Where Christians Can Get It Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing scares me more than a group of people who all believe the same thing. Let me amend that: nothing scares me more than a group of people who all 1.) believe all of the same things 2.) want to believe all of the same things, 3.) believe that believing in all of the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=72&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Such Thing As A Conservative Atheist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My question, I have to admit, comes from a particular definition of “conservative.” While conservative can mean many things, as “liberal” can mean many things, I’m operating with what I perceive to be a collective cultural definition of the term. By that I mean, when I think of “Conservative,” I’m thinking of an American political [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=69&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worry Warts: Turns Out, They&#8217;re Not That Benign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worry is a disgusting sin. Well, all sin is disgusting, yeah?, so maybe saying worry is a disgusting sin is a little redundant. It’s a sin.   And worry, for me is a very peculiar sin. Peculiar because, up until about a year ago, I didn’t truly understand it as sin at all.   Sure, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=65&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He Who Loves His Life Will Lose It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was flying home yesterday after a visit with my family. They are about the most wonderful people one could ever hope to meet, and they fill me with a bursting joy.   Boarding the plane, I thought of the boyfriend I will be flying home to, the life that we share together, and all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=63&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When We Don&#8217;t See Eye to Eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m feeling so very lost right now. When should one keep fighting, and when should one shut up?   I’m talking of course about my life’s goal—or what I perceive my life’s goal to be at this point.   I want to open up very honest conversations about religion, namely Christianity, and how it relates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=60&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proposition 8 and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving home from work yesterday, listening to the Jazz radio station like I do. It’s not that I’m a huge fan of Jazz or anything, but it’s the only station that actually plays music without commercial interruptions every 2 minutes.   The Jazz station updates traffic every hour from 4:00pm until 7:00pm, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=54&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Third Day of Lent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the third day of Lent.   Wednesday was the first time in my life that I was ashed.   &#8220;Ashed”—that’s what my boyfriend called it. He said, “Oh, now you’ve got a dirty little head.” And I laughed.   I received my first “ashing” at my new church. It’s Catholic and it’s beautiful, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=52&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You, Bristol Palin, For Being An Honest Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bristol Palin held an interview with Greta Van Susteren on &#8220;On The Record&#8221; Monday night. She said, among many things, that abstinence-only programs don&#8217;t work. So did her mother, Sarah Palin (wait, what?).   Please find the interview, as reported by Huffington Post, here. (You can also find it at Fox News, obviously).   Okay, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=43&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little On Evangelism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, today I’ve really been wondering about evangelism as a concept. Missions and preaching and such, you know. But not so much missions and preaching on a global or organized level—more personal evangelism.   I have learned a lot about sharing the Gospel throughout my few years on this earth. First, it was my mother [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=35&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us Proclaim The Mystery of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, that&#8217;s from Catholic Mass, if anyone was wondering.    I just ran my first 5k today, and there&#8217;s something about training, setting goals and completing a race that gets me thinking about God. Well, most things get me thinking about God, but physical fitness does for sure. Once, when I was on a week-long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=11&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Because good girls do it too</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 1 in 8 American teens pledge sexual abstinence. According to Janet Rosenbaum’s recent study, featured in the December 2008 issue of TIME Magazine and CNNHealth.com, 54% of teens who make these pledges have premarital sex anyway. I did both.   Welcome, welcome, welcome to a new blog dedicated to all things Christian and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brittanyfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6410712&amp;post=4&amp;subd=brittanyfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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