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	<title>Nothing But Fancy</title>
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	<description>a blog by Nancy Hawthorne</description>
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		<title>Guidebook of UM-related Institutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past two years I have been employed by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church as the Office Coordinator of Schools, Colleges, and Universities in the Division of Higher Education.  Phew&#8230;that is quite a mouthful.

The main part of my job is to create awareness for UM-related Schools, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2010/07/09/guidebook-of-um-related-institutions/</link>
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		<title>Privilege</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer I find myself in a bit of an intellectual and emotional conundrum around the ideas of privilege.  It has really been something I have struggled with my whole live, but the combined experience of the immigration trip, the story of someone who has become a dear friend to me, the books I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2010/06/30/privilege/</link>
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		<title>Pedagogy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pedagogy &#8212; that&#8217;s a fancy word for how to teach &#8212; and I have been thinking a lot about it lately.
I am the classic over achiever who finds out the &#8220;rules&#8221; of a class and then dives head first into producing exactly what the professor wants to emerge with an A.  People that make good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2010/04/08/pedagogy/</link>
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		<title>Ache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking a lot about how to love others.  This weekend I traveled to Tallahassee for a dear friend&#8217;s wedding.  Over the course of the weekend I spent some quality time with a few people who have played a major role in my spiritual, intellectual, and emotional development.  Yet at the same time, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2010/02/23/ache/</link>
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		<title>Social Enterprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am taking a course at Vandy&#8217;s business school about Social Enterprise this semester.  During almost every class I am jumping in my bones with ridiculous excitement about the opportunities in this emerging field!  A social enterprise uses a business approach where the primary focus is to make positive social change, instead of to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2010/02/17/social-enterprise/</link>
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		<title>Work, School, Moving, Running, and Friends?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does a person who&#8230; works 37.5 hours per week, has 9 credits of grad school course work, is training for a 1/2 marathon on Feb. 13th, and moved into a new house last weekend&#8230; have time to sleep or breath?!  I&#8217;m not sure&#8230; but I&#8217;m desperately trying to figure it out.
I have been told [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2010/02/04/work-school-moving-running-and-friends/</link>
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		<title>Aphikoma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My favorite sacrament of the church is Communion/Eucharist.  I grew up spilling grape juice down my dress and looking forward to the biggest chunk of Hawaiian Bread that they served at the summer camp I attended.  I have heard so many communion meditations (shorter sermons on Communion Sunday to keep the United Methodist&#8217;s happy), but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2010/01/20/aphikoma/</link>
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		<title>Winter Ramblings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago this month I moved to Nashville!  Who lives in Florida their whole life and moves to Tennessee in the middle of winter?!  Me.
The first two winters I spent in a bit of funk wanting nothing more than to come home to a hot bath and blankets!
While I still love my hot baths [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2010/01/14/winter-ramblings/</link>
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		<title>Aqedah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Thursday in my Hebrew Bible discussion class, we talked about the Aqedah or the binding of Isaac in Gen 22:1-24, where Abraham agrees to sacrifice Isaac per God&#8217;s request without any objection.  Our teaching fellow has never asked a &#8220;faith&#8221; question.  However, in more or less words she asked if this story makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2009/12/14/aqedah/</link>
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		<title>Prayer of the Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning for Children&#8217;s Sabbath Sunday we sang the song, &#8220;Prayer of the Children&#8221; by Kert Bestor.  We began rehearsing it weeks ago.   Much like all the songs we begin in Church Choir, I expect the theology to be simple and self-centered and music to be generic.  But this time we sang the first lines:
Can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nothingbutfancy.com/2009/10/25/prayer-of-the-children/</link>
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