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	<description>Art + Theology : A Peaceful Collision</description>
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		<title>A Matter of Photos</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a smattering of photos from Matter &#8216;09. What a great weekend of conversation and contemplation. Watch this site and the Shechem Press site for details about the upcoming Matter &#8216;09 Anthology, due out in Spring 2010. Many thanks to everyone who participated. Let&#8217;s do it again!
Click on the thumbnails to see the full images. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;Religious&#8221; Poetry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been a bit confused when people refer to my religious poems versus the poems I&#8217;ve written about my family, or poems like &#8220;Thoughts on Human Beauty in the Y Locker Room.&#8221;  From the very beginning, I&#8217;ve considered all of my poems to be religious poems.  In their conception and in the labor that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can we talk?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;re interested, but a conference? Really? I know what you&#8217;re thinking. I&#8217;ve done my time at &#8220;church&#8221; conferences and academic show-and-tells. Most of those events leave me glancing at the clock, to understate things a bit. It seems at so many festivals, conferences, and seminars the goal is to talk the audience into submission and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contributing Artists &amp; Scholars</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reviewing an impressive stack of entries, we&#8217;re excited to announce our participating artists and scholars. We&#8217;re overjoyed at the diversity and expertise of our contributors.

Trey Allen serves as Director of Spiritual Formation at Sugar Land First United Methodist Church. Though neither artist or academic, he attempts to be both through preaching, his ultimate passion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Pete</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re excited to have Peter Rollins as our keynote speaker at Matter &#8216;09.
Last week The Christian Century published a fantastic interview with Rollins. For those of you who find yourself wondering who he is and why he&#8217;s our pick as the Matter &#8216;09 keynote speaker, give this a read:
http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=7087
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		<title>Where did I put my crayons?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My office is filled with art. Some of that art is executed by professionals who have dedicated their lives to their craft, some of it was gluesticked by 4-year-olds between snack and the next trip to the playground. In truth I&#8217;d never try to compare the two (a bit like C.S. Lewis or Foster to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Mallonee &amp; Vigilantes of Love @ Matter &#8216;09</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Mallonee of Athens, Georgia, is #65 in Paste Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;100 Greatest Living Songwriter&#8217;s&#8221; Poll, and we&#8217;re honored to have him and the rest of the band join us for Matter &#8216;09: A Creative Theology Event.

&#8220;The poetry and intelligence of Bill Mallonee&#8217;s songs rivals Dylan&#8217;s, and the spirituality and inspiration of them is like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Papers &amp; Artwork</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shechem Ministries’ “Matter ’09: A Creative Theology Event” is now accepting submissions of papers and artwork for the conference September 17-19, 2009, at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Selected papers and artwork will be presented at the conference and will be published in the anthology of the conference, Matter, published by Shechem Press [...]]]></description>
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