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		<title>When Jesus pursues, none escape</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/08/06/when-jesus-pursues-none-escape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Thompson&#8217;s classic poem about Jesus in pursuit, &#8220;The Hound of Heaven,&#8221; came to mind yesterday after talking with Beth about her husband&#8217;s almost-there move from Christian Science to the Cross. Jesus&#8217; desire for us to know and love him is relentless and irresistible. He will have his way with us if it takes eternity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Each of us must choose</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/08/01/each-of-us-must-choose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth, the wife of Dave, whose situation is described in the post just before this one, left a couple of phone messages for me in the hope of talking privately about his dawning faith in Christ, something she&#8217;s unable to do by email. Thanks for reaching out, Beth. We will connect one of these days. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interceding for Dave</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/07/22/interceding-for-dave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave and Beth (not their real names) need our prayers. He is on the doorstep between the Christian Science church and the Body of Christ. She is a devoted believer who follows this website and derives encouragement from it, has reached out to one of us by phone, and invites us to intercede for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Scientist to seminary grad</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/05/16/from-scientist-to-seminary-grad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 02:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Christian Science doesn&#8217;t have the answers.&#8221; Buffy, our younger friend of many years, was standing in the driveway after doing some painting for us, her business at the time. Her anguished words were the opening Donna and I had been waiting for. &#8220;No, Buff, it doesn&#8217;t. But we&#8217;ve found that Jesus does.&#8221; This weekend, less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It started with a Web search</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/04/24/it-started-with-a-web-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did I always feel like something was missing? I am have been married for 17 years, have three incredible children, a dear husband who I adore and live a very full life. I have good friends, a nice home, enjoy my volunteer work and my job why the tiny nagging feeling? Why did I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unscriptural textbook</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/04/20/unscriptural-textbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ritchie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Eddy's Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search the Scriptures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor: Many of us within the Ananias circle, even if we’ve never met in person, feel a close kinship through the shared experience of finding Jesus, the pearl of great price. The brotherly bond between Jim Ritchie in Alabama and Phil Moser in Alabama is an example. Last year after Phil told his story here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My daily study: Different yet similar</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/04/01/my-daily-study-different-yet-similar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does the morning quiet time with reading and prayer, so beloved to many Christian Scientists, go away when you leave Science to become a biblical Christian? It needn&#8217;t and shouldn&#8217;t. Today (March 31), with Easter approaching, my wife and I and our son all studied from a Bible guide that included Matthew 26, Psalm 55, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ananias is now on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/03/14/ananias-is-now-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and Twitter. Like the obedient disciple in Acts 9:10, we want to go where the Lord sends us and be available to those seeking Him. Social media are one place to do that today. Our Facebook group is called Christian Science Exit. Our name on Twitter is ChrScienceExit. The description of who we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brother Jim Ritchie looks west</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/03/13/brother-jim-ritchie-looks-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God knew what He was doing when two college guys worked the summer of 1962 at a Christian Science camp, then didn&#8217;t see each other again until 2010, each having found their way to the Cross in the years between. Jim Ritchie of Alabama (R) was reunited with John Andrews of Colorado this week, presenting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs. Eddy&#8217;s Children, 100 Years On</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/02/07/mrs-eddys-children-100-years-on/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/02/07/mrs-eddys-children-100-years-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a newer follower of Jesus, I struggled with seeing objectively into my own mental landscape and life experience as Christian Science had shaped them. I felt the need to do this for two reasons. Stepping away from long-familiar thought patterns toward freedom in Christ was going to take a conscious effort. And reaching out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Christmas undid me</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/12/24/how-christmas-undid-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is beloved to me a season of new birth personally, as well as a celebration of Jesus&#8217; birth. Over the years as a young adult Christian Scientist, raising our kids, teaching Sunday school, active with Adventure Unlimited and Principia, I found it harder and harder - along with my wife Donna &#8211; to reconcile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closer to Calvary?</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/11/24/closer-to-calvary/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2009/11/24/closer-to-calvary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sizing Up the Next Generation Fellowship Lifting up &#8220;Jesus Christ, and him crucified,&#8221; in the words of I Corinthians 2:2, is unusual for Christian Scientists. But there is a new group in St. Louis who talk more like followers of the cross than Mrs. Eddy&#8217;s devotees usually do. What are we to make of them? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pray for an open door</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/10/14/pray-for-an-open-door/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2009/10/14/pray-for-an-open-door/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Gans of Santa Barbara, originator of the idea for this website, here concludes the interview he and I began back in May. &#8220;Pray that God would open a door of conversation,&#8221; he urges in reply to my final question regarding our intercession for loved ones who still follow Christian Science. Our exchange on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How spiritual are we?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/10/12/how-spiritual-are-we/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2009/10/12/how-spiritual-are-we/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So asks the cover of Parade magazine, Oct. 4 issue, with a big article about their poll of over 1000 Americans. The survey&#8217;s key finding that &#8220;spirituality&#8221; is gaining as religion recedes might be okay with Christian Scientists, who reach out to the world these days via Spirituality.com. But it&#8217;s concerning to me, believing as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Immersed myself in Scripture’</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/07/08/%e2%80%98immersed-myself-in-scripture%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2009/07/08/%e2%80%98immersed-myself-in-scripture%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Gans, my yokefellow in starting this website (see Philippians 4:3), has contributed the second part of his reply to a blog interview I began with him some weeks ago. Part One took up the questions from John Andrews, What is the faith you live by? and then, Why and how did you leave Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hear Lewis&#8217;s classic of the faith</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/05/07/hear-lewiss-classic-of-the-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2009/05/07/hear-lewiss-classic-of-the-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 22:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally presented as radio talks during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis&#8217;s beloved Mere Christianity returned to the airwaves on Easter 2009 with an oral reading by my daughter and me on Backbone Radio, my weekly program heard throughout Colorado. Click to hear the podcast. Though Backbone Radio usually sticks to political topics, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with Carl Gans</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/05/02/an-interview-with-carl-gans/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2009/05/02/an-interview-with-carl-gans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Gans of Santa Barbara, California, is a husband, father, attorney, and one of the founders of this website. The Ananias letter on our home page, though cosigned by several of us, was his idea, and I have personally been strengthened a great deal as a follower of Jesus by Carl&#8217;s friendship over the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t miss Easter&#8217;s real meaning</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/04/12/41/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2009/04/12/41/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Petteys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me on this holy weekend, the contrast couldn&#8217;t be more stark between our Catholic parish&#8217;s moving Easter Vigil liturgy and what I remember of Easter as a Christian Scientist. Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, suffered on the cross and rose from the dead to redeem us from sin and death. But in Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who are today&#8217;s &#8216;women at the cross&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/03/30/who-are-todays-women-at-the-cross/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2009/03/30/who-are-todays-women-at-the-cross/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus&#8217; mother and the other women keeping vigil on Calvary weren&#8217;t metaphysicians. They were personal followers of the personal Jesus, the only begotten Son, their saving Lord, God in the flesh. But Mary Baker Eddy writes as if they were fellow Christian Scientists, witnessing &#8220;the final demonstration of what life is.&#8221; Referring to Jesus&#8217; interrogation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Faith of fathers&#8217; can mislead</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2009/03/30/faith-of-fathers-can-mislead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are family reasons keeping you in Christian Science? Most of us feel a natural reverence for &#8220;the faith of our fathers.&#8221; But what is this really about? Although honoring our parents according to the Fifth Commandment is never optional, family loyalty is not a sufficient reason for accepting a particular belief about God. Whereas a [...]]]></description>
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