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		<title>Theology for hire …</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Theology for hire … 13 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized Sometimes, seminary studies can seem a bit arcane. I remember one of my favorite Biblical Studies professors, Carolyn Sharp, jokingly saying in a sermon, “We Bible professors like to tell ourselves that what we do is relevant.” [It is. We just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over 40 Years of Waiting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over 40 Years of Waiting 02 Jan 2012 2 Comments by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized This is me, literally wandering in the Saudi Arabian desert in 2010, and experiencing a brief moment of liberation from a hot head scarf on a very hot day. Much is made of the fact that the ancient Israelites, once freed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG, it’s the GOE!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OMG, it’s the GOE! 29 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized I have decided to approach the General Ordination Examination the same way I approached childbirth. I remember being in my ninth month of pregnancy, thinking to myself, “Wait a minute… maybe this isn’t a good idea….” Too late!  I comforted myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divinity on the Border?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Divinity on the Border? 18 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized Harvard Divinity School on the border, surrounded by science A couple of weeks ago, I visited some people at Harvard Divinity School, and I was reading the web site directions for finding the Divinity School as I walked alongside Harvard Yard. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simministry.org/2011/12/divinity-on-the-border/</link>
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		<title>Venting about Advent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Venting about Advent 27 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized There seem to be two favorite pastimes of seminarians at the beginning of Advent: 1) expressing disdain for all the materialistic people and corporations who are misappropriating the birth of Christ and creating a strife-ridden, idolatrous, sacrilegious mess of Christmas; 2) stressing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can I keep from singing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can I keep from singing? 04 Nov 2011 1 Comment by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized Singing at a young adults&#8217; VOCARE retreat with Marcia, the Rev. John Mangels, and Dennis Engblom in 2006. Singing Hebrew songs in a conservative synagogue in Boston only hours after learning of the death of my friend, mentor, spiritual director, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t ask! or, Coming Home Part Deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t ask! or, Coming Home Part Deux 11 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized I have had a topsy-turvy start to my third and last year of seminary, and here’s why: I was returning from Northern California to New Haven, thinking about how much I missed California and how much I wished [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simministry.org/2011/10/don%e2%80%99t-ask-or-coming-home-part-deux/</link>
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		<title>Buy a book for a seminarian!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buy a book for a seminarian! 24 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized Laura Simkins, who spearheaded the fundraising drive for my textbooks, gets ready to present me with a check for book costs. Thank you, Laura! Out of the many wonderful experiences I have had back home in California, one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simministry.org/2011/08/buy-a-book-for-a-seminarian/</link>
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		<title>Coming home, part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming home, part 1 23 Aug 2011 2 Comments by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized With another very supportive group, some of my fellow Education for Ministry students from St. Michael&#8217;s of Carmichael, CA I have spent this past week in one of the rites of passage for Episcopal seminarians: meeting with diocesan committees who are considering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simministry.org/2011/08/coming-home-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Working out spiritual glitches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working out spiritual glitches 06 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment by Janine Schenone in Uncategorized I find biomechanics fascinating. They are more fascinating to me when someone else is having a biomechanical problem, not me, but the fact is that I have become intimately acquainted this summer with the biomechanics of my right knee. You might [...]]]></description>
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