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		<title>They ask: What happened to you?</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2011/10/26/they-ask-what-happened-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened to me was that I realized I couldn&#8217;t make it without Jesus and his Cross. I needed to be in a living, personal relationship with Him. Christian Science didn&#8217;t offer me that, so I fled to where it was offered. So goes the simplest answer I can give today, or could ever have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Carl Gans</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2011/08/09/remembering-carl-gans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carl Gans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The many friends of Carl Gans, co-founder of the Ananias Circle, mourn his sudden passing last week and extend our loving support to his family. My affection for Carl, and my gratitude to him as an elder brother in Christ, are beyond words. We became very close after meeting in 1998 and realizing how similar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Years Saved</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2011/06/14/ten-years-saved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming from four generations of Christian Scientists on both sides, the process of leaving Science was slow for me at first, then suddenly fast. When devoted to CS, I had no idea of the immense amount of false teaching and twisting of religious terminology there was, when compared with the Christianity of the Bible, based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A total change of heart</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2011/05/20/a-total-change-of-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2011/05/20/a-total-change-of-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 03:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last ten-plus years have constituted a mental struggle leading at last to my departure from Christian Science.  I was a fourth-generation Scientist, class taught, served as reader (1st &#38; 2nd), board member, Sunday School teacher and superintendent. Presently, I&#8217;m not finding the words to express my CS experience very well.  Everything has just started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MBE&#8217;s towering self-appraisal</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2011/05/15/mbes-towering-self-appraisal/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2011/05/15/mbes-towering-self-appraisal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 23:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Silas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Eddy's Children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who did Mary Baker Eddy think she was?  Who did she think Jesus was?  What was the Trinity to her?  What was the Bible&#8217;s authority to her?  What did she think was God&#8217;s plan for our salvation and for the outcome of history?  The height of her self-importance and the distance of her departure from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designer spirituality worsens by the day</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2011/03/27/designer-spirituality-worsens-by-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2011/03/27/designer-spirituality-worsens-by-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barnabas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Issues of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The widespread assumption that true goodness is achievable in human beings by one&#8217;s own effort was vividly illustrated by an exchange on Facebook this weekend. John Andrews cited a troubling observation by Mark Twain about the darkness within. Though he added no doctrinal argument, his passing reference to God was enough to start Diana Caile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirituality is not Christianity</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2011/01/15/spirituality-is-not-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issues of the Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado this weekend hosts a &#8220;Spirituality Conference&#8221; celebrating the oneness of all things and, it would seem, damning Christianity with faint praise. Notice how the Denver Post story from Jan. 12, given in full below, invokes science at the beginning and again at the end. &#8220;The oneness of all&#8221; is pantheism pure and simple, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After fourteen years</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2011/01/05/after-fourteen-years/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2011/01/05/after-fourteen-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First-Person Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Andrews' Publications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Paul writes of having spent fourteen years, after his conversion on the Damascus road, coming to know Jesus better and preparing for the fulness of his missionary work as related in the epistles and the Book of Acts (see Galatians 2:1). Recently in corresponding with Dave in Boston, a former Christian Scientist still half-convinced that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Taken Seriously</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/12/24/christmas-taken-seriously/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/12/24/christmas-taken-seriously/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 21:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Profound thoughts on the reason for the season from Ryan Murphy, a professor of Christian Thought at Colorado Christian University where I work. Advent is like our prison door being opened from the outside, he quotes pastor and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer as having written from a Nazi prison. Read Murphy&#8217;s powerful essay here.]]></description>
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		<title>The tyranny of hurt feelings</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/10/24/the-tyranny-of-hurt-feelings/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/10/24/the-tyranny-of-hurt-feelings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search the Scriptures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is about the hesitancy, or outright self-censorship, felt by many of us in telling our family and friends why we now follow Jesus instead of Mrs. Eddy. Sometimes that reticence even extends to going on record publicly about our reasons for leaving Christian Science, out of concern for how someone might be personally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captured by the Hound of Heaven</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/10/02/captured-by-the-hound-of-heaven/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/10/02/captured-by-the-hound-of-heaven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First-Person Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Andrews' Publications]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ananias.org/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is another in our interview series. On this site in the past, Linda Kramer and Carl Gans have answered my questions about how they know God, why they left Christian Science, and what still connects them to those roots. This time I have interviewed myself, using the same seven questions as before. You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Jesus pursues, none escape</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/08/06/when-jesus-pursues-none-escape/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/08/06/when-jesus-pursues-none-escape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First-Person Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ananias.org/?p=80</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/08/01/each-of-us-must-choose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First-Person Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seekers]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/07/22/interceding-for-dave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ananias.org/?p=65</guid>
		<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>It started with a Web search</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2010/04/24/it-started-with-a-web-search/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/04/24/it-started-with-a-web-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Meyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiences]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/04/20/unscriptural-textbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ritchie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First-Person Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Eddy's Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search the Scriptures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ananias.org/2010/04/20/unscriptural-textbook/</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/04/01/my-daily-study-different-yet-similar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search the Scriptures]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/03/14/ananias-is-now-on-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Websites]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2010/03/13/brother-jim-ritchie-looks-west/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First-Person Notes]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Church & Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture & Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Eddy's Children]]></category>

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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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