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	<title>Ananias.org</title>
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	<description>A circle of friends in Christ</description>
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		<title>An Interview with Linda Kramer</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2008/08/11/an-interview-with-linda-kramer/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2008/08/11/an-interview-with-linda-kramer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How is your life different now in following biblical Christianity, from what it was before in following Mary Baker Eddy?  What did you mean when writing in your book, &#8220;I can recognize the shortcomings of my former religion while still appreciating the good&#8221;?  By what points of entry can a former Christian Scientist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A century without the Savior?</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2008/04/02/a-century-without-the-savior/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2008/04/02/a-century-without-the-savior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How can there not be one word about Jesus in a newspaper story marking 100 years of worship services for a Denver-area church of Christ, Scientist, an article hundreds of words long and written by a well-established Christian Science practitioner?
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		<title>What Christmas means to me</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2007/12/24/what-christmas-means-to-me/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2007/12/24/what-christmas-means-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search the Scriptures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To me, Christmas means exactly those &#8220;tidings of joy to all people&#8221; that the angel told the shepherds in Luke 2:11.  But to Mary Baker Eddy, based on her well-known article by the same title, it means something quite different.
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		<title>If Christ be not risen</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2007/11/13/if-christ-be-not-risen/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2007/11/13/if-christ-be-not-risen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Eddy's Children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Would ye ascend the mountain&#8230; and drink from its living fountains?&#8221;  So asks the mysterious Stranger to a group of laborers in the valley at the beginning of Mrs. Eddy&#8217;s brief, biblically resonant tale entitled &#8220;An Allegory.&#8221; Recently I met a Christian Science couple
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		<title>What they&#8217;re missing is the Bible</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2007/09/08/what-theyre-missing-is-the-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2007/09/08/what-theyre-missing-is-the-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rocky Mountain News religion writer Jean Torkelson has been a friend of mine for years.  She&#8217;s quietly devout in her Catholic faith
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		<title>Kate&#8217;s story: A life-saving decision</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2007/09/08/kates-story-a-life-saving-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2007/09/08/kates-story-a-life-saving-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[First-Person Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Author: Kate Jones) When Christianity is presented as a science, the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ is diminished and pasteurized into something unrecognizable.  I spent the first forty years of my life living under the false pretense that I was actually a Christian.  I was not.
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		<title>Adam&#8217;s prayer for Carolyn</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2007/05/23/adams-prayer-for-carolyn/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2007/05/23/adams-prayer-for-carolyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 02:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam, a young businessman not quite 30, raised as an evangelical Christian, thoughtful, well-read, and free-spirited, contacted me recently at the suggestion of a mutual friend.  He was concerned about his grandmother, Carolyn, nearing 80, a lifelong Christian Scientist
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		<title>When we misunderstand the sexes</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2007/04/12/consequences-of-misunderstanding-the-sexes/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2007/04/12/consequences-of-misunderstanding-the-sexes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Petteys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Issues of the Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of ours recently said, “When you stop reading the Bible, all kinds of things start happening.”  This is certainly true for the Christian Science church. Six years ago when my daughter was attending Principia College,
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		<title>Discovering a larger God</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2007/03/12/discovering-a-larger-god/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2007/03/12/discovering-a-larger-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ananias Essays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Journal entry, June 1998, John Andrews)  I found an admirable God in the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy in the first 40 years of my life. But then I found a truly awesome God, the Adorable One, in the pages of the Bible. This God soon took me by storm.
This was a larger God, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I thought I was a Christian</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2007/03/12/i-thought-i-was-a-christian/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2007/03/12/i-thought-i-was-a-christian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ananias Essays]]></category>

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&#8220;A man may honestly think himself honest, and a fresh week&#8217;s
experience may make him doubt it altogether.  I sorely want a God
to make me honest. &#8221;  - George MacDonald, Paul Faber
&#8220;So foolish was I and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.” - Psalms 7 3:22
&#8220;And the disciples were called Christians first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to our blog</title>
		<link>http://ananias.org/2007/02/21/welcome-to-our-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://ananias.org/2007/02/21/welcome-to-our-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
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(By John Andrews)  I received Christian baptism on the eve of Easter 1993 at St. Gabriel&#8217;s Anglican Church in Denver, having resigned my lifelong membership in the Christian Science church several months before.  
After I met Carl Gans in 1998, and we realized how similar our journeys from Mrs. Eddy&#8217;s teachings to the [...]]]></description>
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