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		<title>So Long, Farewell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Long, Farewell The Sound of Music — MOVIECLIPS.com &#160; &#160; Well, here we are at the end of the year and the end of Clayfire Curator. I think I&#8217;m supposed to be sad. However, since posting the announcement about closing down everything associated with Clayfire, so many of you have commented here on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone Said</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I first went Epiphany chalking four years ago. On a fine January afternoon, Samantha, a teenager in my church, and I waltzed all through our neighborhood, fat yellow box of Crayola chalk in hand. (I told myself that I was doing something noble by spending my afternoon with a church teen, but I suspect that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clayfirecurator.org/2011/12/someone-said-20-c-m-b-12-lauren-winner/</link>
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		<title>An Epiphany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jodi-Renee Adams challenges us to look beyond our pre-defined categories of the "sacred" for spiritual Epiphanies that will enlarge and enliven our view of God.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clayfirecurator.org/2011/12/an-epiphany-jodi-renee-adams/</link>
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		<title>Someone Saw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christian Pilgrims Celebrate the Epiphany in the Jordan Valley, January 2011 For followers of the Jewish faith, Qasr Al-Yahud is the path the ancient Israelites crossed on their way from Egypt. For the Christians, it is the place where Jesus experienced his spiritual rebirth. And for the ten thousand pilgrims that crowded it on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clayfirecurator.org/2011/12/someone-saw-orthodox-epiphany-qasr-al-yahud/</link>
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		<title>Beheaded Pigs and Fancy Logs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mandy Smith gives background on the medieval Epiphany traditions involving boar's heads and yule logs along with some suggestions for incorporating these into contemporary worship.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clayfirecurator.org/2011/12/beheaded-pigs-and-fancy-logs-mandy-smith/</link>
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		<title>Someone Said</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Epiphany is a season for seeing more of Christ&#8217;s glory by focusing on his life and mission. Simultaneously, it&#8217;s a time for making that glory better known to those around us. We bear witness to what we have seen and learned and experienced. Herein lies a spiritual paradox: not only do we say what we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clayfirecurator.org/2011/12/someone-said-epiphany-season-bobby-gross/</link>
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		<title>Epiphanipulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Herron explores the spaces in and around the line between appropriate "powerful messages" and "manipulative art" as curators seek to move people emotionally and intellectually toward spiritual epiphany.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clayfirecurator.org/2011/12/epiphanipulation-eric-herron/</link>
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		<title>Someone Said</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver, from the poem, &#8220;Sometimes,&#8221; in Red Bird: Poems (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2008), p. 37.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clayfirecurator.org/2011/12/someone-said-instructions-for-living-a-life-mary-oliver/</link>
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		<title>What are the results when worship brings ‘epiphany’ to your congregation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before Christmas, there was Epiphany. While many emphasize the visit of the Magi on January 6, historically this event on the Christian calendar has also been associated with a number of other aspects of Jesus’ life and ministry. Epiphany has links to the first miracle at the wedding in Cana, Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clayfirecurator.org/2011/12/what-are-the-results-when-worship-brings-%e2%80%98epiphany%e2%80%99-to-your-congregation/</link>
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		<title>Someone Said</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In England, on Twelfth Night (January 5), many people gather with their neighbors and burn their Christmas trees in one place. In an open field, this is a large and bright bonfire. The sparks fly into the night sky like shooting stars, like the new of God&#8217;s love winging its way to all peoples of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clayfirecurator.org/2011/12/someone-said-twelfth-night-susan-briehl/</link>
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