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		<title>Building things to point at the heavens&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alain de botton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been doing it for a long time now. Remember the story of the Tower of Babel? According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where they resolved to build a city with a tower &#8220;with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=7054&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burns day&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a fiddler in the north]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burns night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freemasonry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jacobitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert burns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Burns day. For the uninitiated, this is a big day up here in Scotland. There will be many a haggis piped in and much raising of whisky glasses along with ceremonial readings of Burns poetry. It is possible that somewhere in this wonderful world that there are other great poets whose memory is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=7051&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The return of the protest song&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/the-return-of-the-protest-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk the banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy london]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protest songs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy London movement have launched their own music channel, along with an album entitled &#8216;Folk the Banks&#8217;. More from the Guardian here. The first album, called Folk the Banks, has a cover designed by the artistJamie Reid, who stuck a safety pin through the Queen&#8217;s nose on the Sex Pistols&#8217; behalf all those years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=7043&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man flu&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/7038/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It's a laugh!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fireplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tissues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I could explain to you just how ill I feel right now after two nights with no sleep, lungs coughing up things the colour of moss, and a head like a blender&#8230; &#8230;but I am too ill to write. Count yourself lucky. Instead I offer you these photographs of our fire place after one mornings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=7038&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community and the social core&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/community-and-the-social-core/</link>
		<comments>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/community-and-the-social-core/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deprivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[our society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social core]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I joined this site recently, thanks to a contact on my blog because of an old post about Poverty and the Emerging Church. &#8216;Our Society&#8217; is helping to join people together for good &#8211; to exchange ideas and information and encourage community action, and as such it seems like something to shine light and sprinkle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=7023&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish independence?</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/scottish-independence/</link>
		<comments>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/scottish-independence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, the issue of independence for Scotland from Great Britain is at the top of the political agenda. Tory leader, David Cameron decided to force the issue and in the process managed to give a political boost to the Scottish Nationalists &#8211; any posh London Tory who tries to flex his or her muscles up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=7019&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blowing away the cobwebs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/blowing-away-the-cobwebs/</link>
		<comments>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/blowing-away-the-cobwebs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilderness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ostel bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photographs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend our eldest nephew Josh and his girlfriend Alice are up to stay with us. It has been a great day- we took them over to Ostel Bay, wrapped up against the wild wind. Rain hail and sleet came across a massive sky in horizontal sheets, curtaining off the island of Arran in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=7010&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The blessing of uneasy questions&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/the-blessing-of-uneasy-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/the-blessing-of-uneasy-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blessing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franciscan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimergent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a long week, I kind of need a cave for a while, but this came in today from the Emergent Village minimergent&#8230; May you (and I) be richly blessed in this kind of way. A Franciscan Blessing  May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=7006&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bowl&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-bowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[emerging church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aoradh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brokenness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god who does not heal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missional community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new monsastic commnity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sickness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spelted wood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wood turning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My mate Simon and I went for a pint the other day, which is actually something I do fairly infrequently these days as there is usually something that gets in the way. The simple act of a pint or two and a table to sit and talk around has been about as close as most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=6994&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doubt&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisfragiletent.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/doubt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Goan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cathedral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doubt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I stood before this edifice of faith And it was magnificent - The curve of the certain arch The immovable pillars The knowing eye in all this carving The soaring ceiling shaped by countless songs of praise ~ But there was this penetrating drip of doubt I could ignore it for a little while Until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisfragiletent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4092763&amp;post=6992&amp;subd=thisfragiletent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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