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		<title>Tweetformation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am blogging, writing for online magazines, twittering (natebettger), facebooking, texting, cell phoning, emailing… while in the meantime reading stuff like the following from Richard Rohr (Adam&#8217;s Return): Lifestyle and relatedness is more important than words, or as Francis &#8230; <a href="http://natebettger.com/2009/02/27/tweetformation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=610&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why we can’t make changes from the top down</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2009/02/18/why-we-can%e2%80%99t-make-changes-from-the-top-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I post this quote, in part as a response to Greg&#8217;s questions HERE, and also as another effort in processing the importance of &#8220;elder wisdom.&#8221; Richard Rohr, in his article, &#8220;The Catch 22 of Male Initiation&#8221; (LINK), writes, It has &#8230; <a href="http://natebettger.com/2009/02/18/why-we-can%e2%80%99t-make-changes-from-the-top-down/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=596&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our adults are adolescents</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2009/02/15/our-adults-are-adolescents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hope in the next few weeks is to begin to develop a greater focus in what I am writing here. Namely, I will be emphasizing many of my thoughts and perceptions regarding the general perpetuating cycle of generational segregation &#8230; <a href="http://natebettger.com/2009/02/15/our-adults-are-adolescents/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=588&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Born again” is all messed up…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never really have liked that language… and in fact you probably won&#8217;t ever hear me use it in conversation or speaking. Here is from Richard Rohr (Adam&#8217;s Return) It seems that most of humanity intuited the need for two &#8230; <a href="http://natebettger.com/2009/02/04/%e2%80%9cborn-again%e2%80%9d-is-all-messed-up%e2%80%a6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=581&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The death before the life</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2009/01/30/the-death-before-the-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about the initiation processes within men and women and where.when we experience this… or how. It seems to me that the very deep.wise, the very spiritual men and women, whether they be Christian or &#8230; <a href="http://natebettger.com/2009/01/30/the-death-before-the-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=563&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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