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		<title>Why Dickens&#8217; True Christmas Lesson Is Community, Not Charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Christmas Carol]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Kevin Nye When Ebeneezer Scrooge is first asked to give charity to the “hundreds of thousands [who] are in want of common comforts,” he asks, “Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses? The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?”   The charity collectors are confused, and after some back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religion</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithforward/2025/04/why-people-are-leaving-their-childhood-religion/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Cara Meredith A recent study from the Pew Research Center finds that around the world, many people are leaving their childhood religions.  As the study shows, “a fifth or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised,” with Christianity and Buddhism experiencing the largest losses overall. While this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Religion Is Reframing the LGBTQ Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Timothy Villareal The LGBTQ acronym is a philosophical antique.  Cunning religious opponents of homosexuality have repurposed the social identity marker for their own anti-homosexuality ends, and some LGBTQ activists are all too happy to oblige.  Last October, the Catholic LGBTQ support organization founded by the Jesuit priest, James Martin, held a conference in Rome [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Karl Marx: Communism as Alternative to Christianity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Robert Orlando In ideology, few figures have garnered as much attention and stirred controversy as Karl Marx’s writings on communism. While commonly regarded as a political and economic theory, a different perspective emerges when we scrutinize it through the lens of eschatology, the study of ultimate destinies. Interestingly, upon closer examination that avoids caricature, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Psalms For Black Lives&#8221; Hopes to Inspire Those In the Pursuit of Justice and Equity For All</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithforward/2022/09/psalms-for-black-lives-hopes-to-inspire-those-in-the-pursuit-of-justice-and-equity-for-all/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 14:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Psalms for Black Lives started as devotionals for a churchwide fasting experience led by the Revs Wilkes during the summer of 2020 when America was burning with anger over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and numerous others. The Wilkes think the Psalms’ words discussed inspiration and truth to their community and the expanding [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Be Mentally Healthy (Like Jesus)</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithforward/2022/05/how-to-be-mentally-healthy-like-jesus/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2022 18:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Jason North When I think of Jesus, my first thought isn’t “Man, he really had so much to teach us about mental health”! Prayer? Yep. Love? Peace? Compassion for others? Standing against injustice and religious bigotry? Also, yes. But mental health is more of a modern concept, created by psychology and therapy (both of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Detaching from American Christianity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Doesn’t it always go this way? You think you have everything figured out in this nutty ride of a life, and then another curve ball comes your way, and you realize: “Oh woo-wee-woo, I was way off”? The good old tale of repentance (rethink everything) and ego check, right? Well, let me tell you a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Should Christians Attend Same-Sex Weddings?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While our motive matters, so does the situation. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gender Dysphoria: Real or Imagined?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have searched through Scripture for some clarity on the issues of LGBTQ identity and found myself drawn to Jesus’ response to the Pharisees in Matthew 19.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>LGBTQ – Choice or Genetics?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many passages in the Bible deal with issues of gender and sexuality. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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