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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phildehaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Wilson is a smart guy and a good writer, always a good combo.  He heads up Books &#38; Culture and he has the good sense to tap into Calvin profs now and then as authors for that publication.  He also is a regular at the Festival of Faith &#38; Writing.  I&#8217;ve been waiting to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=62&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next Week Ruminations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the Festival of Faith &#38; Writing at Calvin College is fading into the rearview mirror, it seems like an appropriate time to ruminate a little on what the weekend was like, how this first blog experiment went and what others are saying about the 2008 FFW.  First, this blog.  When we dove into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=61&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finishing with Falsani</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phildehaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve enjoyed Cathleen Falsani&#8217;s religion column in the Chicago Sun Times for a few years now.  So I was looking forward to her coming to the 2008 Festival of Faith &#38; Writing at Calvin College.  I wasn&#8217;t so thrilled when I saw she was slated to speak at 8:30 am on Saturday morning.  Yikes.  What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=58&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acedia&#8230;so what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allisongraff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember shopping in a bookstore in Moscow several years back and picking up an English-language book called Twelve Stories of Russia, A Novel: I Guess. I couldn&#8217;t help but buy the book because nothing can be more interesting to an American living in Russia than a book written by an American living in Russia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=57&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dont&#8217; forget ot edi t you&#8217;re posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, this isn&#8217;t an indictment directed at the other bloggers on this site. They&#8217;re doing a wonderful job with their posts on Festival sessions. Actually, I&#8217;m just repeating what Zondervan acquisitions editor Angela Scheff and writer Shauna Niequist said in a packed 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning session. What they said at the very beginning of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=55&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art for art&#8217;s sake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>myrnaanderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t first time I had viewed &#8220;Beauty of the Spirit,&#8221; the exhibition of paintings by artists and illustrator Kadir Nelson at the Center Art Gallery. I had gone to see the show soon after it opened. It was, however, the first time I had bought a book there and had it autographed by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=54&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>deliberation, care, artistry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The approach that Nigerian author and Jesuit priest Uwem Akpan takes to his short stories, of which I have read none, was revelatory. Susan Felch, a Calvin professor of English, told her own story about Akpan&#8217;s presence at the Festival of Faith and Writing: &#8220;About a year ago, I was thumbing through the New Yorker. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=52&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nelson Makes His Paintings Sing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When creating a painting, the goal of artist Kadir Nelson is to make his paintings “sing.” Nelson relayed that thought to a large audience in attendance at his presentation at Calvin’s Festival of Faith and Writing Friday afternoon. So how does Nelson make his paintings sing? The answer is simple: By going the extra mile [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=49&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Rec&#8217;s from the Stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ashleighdraft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the &#8220;Literary Fiction: A Place for Faith?&#8221; panel this morning, the discussants offered these book recommendations: Ingrid Hill: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro; Saturday, Ian McEwan Beena Kamlani: Wolf Totem, Jiang Rong Jana Reiss: After This, Alice McDermott; The Ladies&#8217; Auxillary, Tova Mirvis Vinita Hampton Wright: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini; Birds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=46&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Painting vs. Line Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that I found interesting about the Graphalogia session with Kevin Huizenga and Jon Muth was how different their chosen media are. Many there may not have realized it because of the lack of images shown to the audience, but Kevin works in the style of more traditional cartoonists using line art while Jon&#8217;s artwork is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ffwblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3380849&amp;post=41&amp;subd=ffwblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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