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		<title>Learning to make space for the tension</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT WWW.IMMERSEJOURNAL.COM If what it means to be human is found in relationship then the ability to be mindfully present with others is really important in our spiritual journey. This is especially true for youth workers if the old adage “you can’t give away what you don’t own” has any truth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1683&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Story: why we go to Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We go to church to hear the gospel from each other. The more we tell the gospel to ourselves the more we can make it available for others by bearing witness to it. Stories help us make meaning. My son attends a Montessori school. While I love Montessori (the whole work is play and play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1665&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The power of story: communion seriously ups our game</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communion as a culmination point in our liturgy is important every week because it is an acted out auto-biographical story of The Church that Jesus is present in. Stories are how our brains find meaning, they integrate the left and right modes of the brain by utilizing the cause and effect drive towards explaining of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1660&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Audio Divina using Tom Waits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last weekend I was in Atlanta to be a part of The National Youth Workers Conference as a representative of Immerse.  Since I was there anyways I was asked to lead a small prayer exercise in the prayer room they have called The Sanctuary.  (My friends Micah and Erik led many things in this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1639&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resonating Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, Jamie recently said to me that he feels an anxiety from life. We were at a big conference and I asked him if he was excited to be here. He said, “yeah I guess, except I get kind of overwhelmed at these things. I open up this big schedule and it’s a long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1653&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demo Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being in two seminary classes, working full time, raising a two year old and a new born is keeping me from writing these days. In lieu here&#8217;s another song from the bedroom recordings. Filed under: Demos, Music<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1637&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demo Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another song from the Bedroom Demos, a series of b-sides and demos I&#8217;ve recorded at home over the last five years. This came from a three song series of just taking the scriptures read during Advent and putting music to them. Here is Isaiah 52 Part One&#8230; Filed under: Demos, Liturgy, Music<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1632&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demo Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://aaronmitchum.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/demo-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another demo from the bedroom recordings: Filed under: Demos, Music<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1618&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>church and empire 2</title>
		<link>http://aaronmitchum.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/church-and-empire-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a lot of ways a good place to start for this is with Constantine.  Constantine was a ruler of Rome during an odd time when Rome was broken up into four provinces, each of those being ruled by a different authority.  Constantine was one of four rulers of Rome.  Soon though that was not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1558&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>church and empire 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As worship leaders and Christ followers in general we are constantly telling the story of Jesus and leading others in that story. But are we aware of the competing narratives so as to be aware of them when they creep in?  Many narrative compete against the true story of Jesus Christ.  I tend to believe that one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronmitchum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14388369&amp;post=1525&amp;subd=aaronmitchum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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