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		<title>The Rest of the Story: Silencing Mary on Christmas Eve.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It is Christmas Eve. I just put my son to sleep and the family is watching a movie in the living room. I am here writing because there is a deep feeling in my heart that as we go on celebrating Christmas year after year, there is a big part of the story that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have Yourself, A Merry Cross-Cultural Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas season, for better or for worse, brings families together. This is a season of sharing with those you love in conditions of constant ambivalence. Yes, January, the month immediately following holiday season, is the busiest time for psychotherapists working in private practice. If this time is hard for most Americans, it is a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pilgrimage of Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog post was originally posted at undocumented.tv and reposted at globaltheology.org. 
In my work with immigrants, there are certain stories that stick with me because they reveal some aspect of God.Usually, the stories of the poor are too similar to those in the Bible to ignore. They are almost literal, revealing the ways in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we have not written in a while. Well, while we were gone, Lisa and I both got pregnant (3 months apart&#8230; wow!) and it became a little tricky to manage work and family and write a blog post on top of it all. Now I have more energy to write a bit after having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Church, Won’t You Let Us Heal?: Yoga as vehicle of healing  for survivors of trauma</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Hayden Wartes
Our bodies are our greatest possibility of connection to God yet our bodies become our enemy when trauma occurs.  From the moment someone experiences trauma, death and life are no longer distinct but coexist; memories of a type of death of the soul intermingle with present day reality. There is a loss of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join us for a conversation around Immigration, November 4th, 2010 at 415 Westlake, Seattle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is my Neighbor? A Christian Conversation on Immigrati



















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		<title>33 Miners and a Nation&#8217;s Rebirth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Maria-Jose Soerens
The 33 Chilean Miners rescued yesterday captured the imagination of the world and inspired us all through their relentless hope, courage and solidarity towards one another.
Many have already begun to estimate the repercussions of this event for Chile’s stand in the world, President Piñera’s political career, and the working conditions of the miners. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I do what I hate: more stories from the women&#8217;s jail&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a blog entry from &#8220;Tierra Nueva, &#8221; an ecumenical ministry  serving migrant farm workers and inmates of the Skagit County jail in Burlington, WA. It wrestles with the issue of powerlessness. It has always impressed me that whenever we read scripture through the eyes of the poor, we discover that Jesus was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Constituency of Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria-Jose Soerens
Advocates for immigrants rights have been waiting for years for a Comprehensive Immigration Reform. President George W. Bush was a big proponent of a bill that would recognize the complexity of immigration, and President Barack Obama has declared that he is committed to a reform that &#8220;[...] provide[s] lasting and dedicated resources for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rage of a Daughter: Latinamerican Construct of Motherhood in a Patryarchal Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria-Jose Soerens
From all the kinds of anger a woman can feel, none seems to be as brutal, unforgiving, and deeper than that of a daughter who angers her mother for not having protected her against abuse. The feeling of having been left to our own destiny while our mothers quietly witnessed the brutality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corpus Mysticum: How the Eucharistic Image Informs my Eating</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 00:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Etter Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa Carlson
I have situated myself in front of my dinner table as I write. My heart and mind are both filled with grief and inspiration. I grieve how exclusive our homes and tables are in this society. I lament that the poor do not know that they are welcome to knock at the doors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men are People Too: Beyond Gender into Liberation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 20:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria-Jose Soerens
Let&#8217;s face it: labels are handy not only because in a fast-paced world identity sources are fragile, but also because naming can be a powerful political act. In my circles, I often run into people who label themselves as &#8220;feminists.&#8221; I have done it too, but I&#8217;m increasingly growing fond of &#8220;post-colonial&#8221; (indeed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 48 Kind of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria-Jose Soerens
I live in one of the most obliviously segregated cities in the US: Seattle. With one of the highest levels of education per capita and a strong progressive identity, people in Seattle are often excited about the latest Social Justice &#8220;issue&#8221; while unaware of their own &#8220;mainstream-ness&#8221; and physical distance from the poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Memory and the Journey of the In-Between</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria-Jose Soerens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria-Jose Soerens
The immigrant experience is one of being caught-in-between. I am caught between languages, between countries, between spaces that are everything but defined. My heart is always on hold, floating, trying to grasp the voices of ancestors that are unknown to me…
In this space, this hyphen, memory becomes a crucial hook to anchor yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assuming the Destiny of The Poor: a post-colonial view to trauma and healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Etter Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were to fly across the span of time and look down upon the world of the Christian, I would find the landscape to be different in many places, the clothing to be foreign, the languages to be vast, and at points I would find no one living on the very land which I now call my home. If I were to fly across the span of time I would get a birds-eye view of the school of thought that brought about the symposium, and see Joan of Arc riding off to battle and Susan B Anthony sewing the first American flag, but, across all this vastness and all this time, there is one thing I would find that remains the same. I may find wars, places dry with famine, I may see cities known for gambling and prostitution and others, places of slavery and segregation, I may even (and God help me) see such monstrosities as Auschwitz. If I were to look down on the lives of Jesus, Paul, Constantine, Teresa of Avila, Francis of Assisi, John Calvin, Blaise Pascal, Dietrich Bonheoffer, Romero, Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King Jr I would find, in all these places and all times, the Christian to be living in a time and place where the majority of people in the world are living in poverty.]]></description>
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