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	<title>Don’t flay the sheep.</title>
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	<description>A blog by Erica Schemper</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Friends&#8221;: Is social media wasted time?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, full disclosure before I start ruminating on social media (and, for many of us, facebook in particular): as of last week, I am a facebook wife. Not that that&#8217;s a thing. in fact, my web-developer husband says he was pleasantly surprised by how many women were working at facebook, even in the tech-ier positions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/05/21/friends-is-social-media-wasted-time/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;God&#8217;s grace and his faithful provision of leadership for the church&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(A caveat: my new short-term church position is going really well. All things considered, it’s lovely. I’m happy.) Overall, when the sun is shining and life is good, I’m quick to say that Church belongs to Jesus, and it’ll survive in spite of us. But, there are times when I’ve been reading a bit too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/05/16/gods-grace-and-his-faithful-provision-of-leadership-for-the-church/</link>
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		<title>Any May A Beautiful Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(In honor of the release of my dear friend Katherine’s book Any Day a Beautiful Change, I’m participating in a blog carnival, Any May a Beautiful Change. Katherine’s book is about motherhood, so here’s a little May-themed motherhood post.) My first baby, Zora, was easy in the begetting. (I’ll just leave it at that.) Number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/05/02/any-may-a-beautiful-change/</link>
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		<title>And let&#8217;s not forget&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the confirmation class of Park Ridge Community Church, 1965.]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/04/29/and-lets-not-forget/</link>
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		<title>Continental Drift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Really, this is big news even to me: The Schemper-Vorhes family is moving to California! About this time last year, Erik and I were signing a lease for an apartment in Chicago and plotting the move from St. Charles to the city. We had a (flexible-ish) plan that didn&#8217;t involve leaving Chicago, at least for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/04/25/continental-drift/</link>
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		<title>Observations from 7 miles there and back on the lakefront trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running with another person once in awhile probably makes me less of a misanthrope. I usually run alone (or with Abram, who, to honest, I ignore for the bulk of the run: he&#8217;s in his stroller, I&#8217;m running, we&#8217;re each doing our own thing). I listen to sermons and music and podcasts. it&#8217;s ncie. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/04/14/observations-from-7-miles-there-and-back-on-the-lakefront-trail/</link>
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		<title>Shock and Ha!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I couldn&#8217;t resist this title, har, har, har!) I just learned something about preaching from that great practical theologian, Judah Friedlander. (He&#8217;s currently on the TV show 30 Rock.) A local afternoon newstalk program just brought him in on their discussion about the increasing raunchiness of TV shows (and, before you draw any conclusions, this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/04/11/shock-and-ha/</link>
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		<title>Citizens of the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I fulfilled a months-old promise to Zora to make a big pot of Dutch split pea soup. She loves it. Not just for the taste, but also because, at age 3, she thought it was called &#8220;Spit Pee Soup,&#8221; and what preschooler doesn&#8217;t love a name that counts two bodily functions among its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/03/08/citizens-of-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Wise Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zora stepped out on the porch this morning to check the temperature. &#8220;Mom! Mom!&#8217; She came running back into the house, excited. &#8220;You HAVE TO come outside! It&#8217;s so peaceful. No one&#8217;s talking outside, and there are birds, lots of birds. Migratoring back to Chicago!&#8221; With 5 minutes to change Abram&#8217;s diaper and wrestle him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/03/01/wise-child/</link>
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		<title>Outsiders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News reports about the New York Police Department&#8217;s intensive surveillance of Muslims after 9/11 shock me, but particularly reports that just attending a Mosque made someone a target for observation. License plate numbers were taken from cars in the lot. They wanted an informant in every mosque. As a clergy-person, that bothers me. Houses of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikanderica.org/erica/2012/02/27/outsiders/</link>
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