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		<title>Fillet of Soul</title>
		<link>http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/fillet-of-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the Ipsos MORI poll into Religious and Social Attitudes of UK Christians in 2011, commissioned by the Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, sought to strip self-identifying Christians of their cultural flesh to get to the theological bones &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/fillet-of-soul/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1430&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Answer *that* question&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were very fortunate the Annual Quiz finished just before the snow started coming down in earnest! The event was  successful as a fund raiser: £570 was the final count; and it was a very enjoyable social occasion that has &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/answer-that-question/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1410&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Candlemas bells</title>
		<link>http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/candlemas-bells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is often observed that Christianity deliberately coincided Christian High days with older, Pagan festivals in an effort to supplant those traditions and it is certainly true that the coincidence is quite remarkable &#8211; so remarkable in fact that, were &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/candlemas-bells/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1387&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gentle Activity</title>
		<link>http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/gentle_activity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Occupy your soul! The Christian Left gets active&#8220;  was a recent headline on the New Internationalist blog, introducing an article written by Symon Hill, associate director of  the Ekklesia (see the Blogroll) think tank. The article is inspired by the &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/gentle_activity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1365&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epiphany &#8211; now you see it, now you don&#8217;t&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/epiphany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chesterton&#8217;s &#8216;Here is a little door&#8216; is a puzzling little poem. It is often attributed to Frances Chesterton but thought perhaps to have been written by GK himself. If it was he who is the author it fits, because the &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/epiphany/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1338&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Service sticky</title>
		<link>http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/servicesticky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Church Services for 19 February 2012, Sunday before Lent 8 am           Holy Communion 10.30 am   Matins 10.30 am   Sunday Club for children aged 5-12 4 pm           Christian Family Fellowship at the Old Manse 7Past7        15-minute &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/servicesticky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1328&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some say that ever &#8216;gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour&#8217;s birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/christmas-eve/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1304&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent Calendar</title>
		<link>http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/advent-calendar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year St Mary&#8217;s Wivenhoe website carried an Advent calendar for the first time. Seasonal images and carol tunes popped up on opening a door. This year we thought we&#8217;d modify it. Advent is a time of waiting; waiting for &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/advent-calendar/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1290&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Market video</title>
		<link>http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/christmas-market-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were at St Mary&#8217;s Christmas market this year you may have noticed Sam King filming in the church. Sam&#8217;s videos are a wonderful vignette of local events. This is the first time the December market has been captured &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/christmas-market-video/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1285&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St Mary&#8217;s Ale: boxing clever</title>
		<link>http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/boxing-clever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Mary&#8217;s Ale (Christmas edition) will be on sale at the December market in the churchyard on Thursday 1 December &#8211; oh no it won&#8217;t! oh yes it will&#8230;! OK, start again: at the December market, £5 will buy you &#8230; <a href="http://stmarysnews.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/boxing-clever/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stmarysnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16953361&amp;post=1278&amp;subd=stmarysnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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