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		<title>Interview at &#8220;Hope Scribbles&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long-time faithful Inklings reader Elisabeth Allen has kindly posted an interview with yours truly on her blog, Hope Scribbles. She asked some great questions about writing, faith, homeschooling, and indie publishing, leading to a fun (and I hope inspirational) conversation. Read Part 1 and Part 2 at these links.
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		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/03/interview-at-hope-scribbles/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver Chronicles: The Great Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we flew out, we really didn&#8217;t know where we&#8217;d be performing. But we were excited to learn that besides churches and a large theatre, we&#8217;d be going into Vancouver&#8217;s Skid Row area to minister at a beautiful women&#8217;s day shelter called &#8220;The Great Room.&#8221; This article talks about the Great Room and the wonderful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/03/vancouver-chronicles-the-great-room/</link>
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		<title>The Vancouver Chronicles: Aha Concerts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of what we did in BC was perform as part of the Aha Concerts in Surrey and Vancouver. Put together by the marvelous Russ and Sandy Rosen, they were singing, moving, colorful mosaics of music and dance and culture  . We didn&#8217;t realize that 100 Huntley St had covered them until we stumbled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/03/the-vancouver-chronicles-aha-concerts/</link>
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		<title>On to Perfection!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember my post about how God made Jesus perfect?
Yesterday in Hebrews 13:20-21 (yes, I just finished the book), I read this:
Now the God of  peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great  shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/03/on-to-perfection/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver Chronicles: Why Crazy Is Good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I intended to blog, but didn&#8217;t because I was fatigued. I had just driven in from Toronto, after being in Niagara, after being in Vancouver, and I was bushed. Still am, but I&#8217;m fairly jazzed up on coffee at the moment. This is good, seeing as I have a LOT of work to catch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/03/vancouver-chronicles-why-crazy-is-good/</link>
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		<title>Raven&#8217;s Ladder: A Review</title>
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Raven&#8217;s Ladder is the third book in the four-book Auralia Thread, a startlingly poetic, deeply spiritual fantasy series that begins with Auralia&#8217;s Colors and Cyndere&#8217;s Midnight.
The story dawns on a displaced people: The people of House Abascar, led by the young king Cal-Raven and his faithful guardsman Tabor Jan, have moved into a network of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/02/ravens-ladder-a-review/</link>
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		<title>A Very Brief Vancouver Report and Other Neglected Topics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have now been home from Vancouver for three days, but balk every time I think of blogging. Reason being: there is too much to blog about!
For example, Jeffrey Overstreet&#8217;s latest book in the Auralia Thread, Raven&#8217;s Ladder, was released on February 16, and it is amazing. He was good enough to send me a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/02/a-very-brief-vancouver-report-and-other-neglected-topics/</link>
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		<title>Music that Speaks and Music that Praises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about songwriting lately for two major reasons: annoyance and joy.
Annoyance with a trend in worship music these days to be formless and void (what do some of those words mean, anyway?) and joy in music that does worship and that does teach and exhort, as well as having musical excellence to it.
One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/02/music-that-speaks-and-music-that-praises/</link>
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		<title>Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my question the other day about songwriting wasn&#8217;t entirely rhetorical; I was leading up to something  . Does music &#8212; specifically music with words, songs &#8212; have a God-given purpose? Is there something we&#8217;re supposed to do with it? Obviously, song is an incredible form of expression. But is self-expression all there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/02/psalms-and-hymns-and-spiritual-songs/</link>
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		<title>Where We Are &#8211; In the Air!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vancouver adventure has begun! As you read this, Carolyn and I will be in the air somewhere over the great Canadian prairies (or possibly lounging in the Calgary airport on layover &#8212; I haven&#8217;t checked our itinerary that closely). We will have been awake since 3:00 a.m. and flying since 7:15.  We have an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2010/02/where-we-are-in-the-air/</link>
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