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		<title>Maybe the Alt-Right is Right: The Futility of the Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  “We insist that “diversity” is a great strength, but for most (white) Americans this is mere lip service. They rarely seek diversity inter personal lives, living instead in homogeneous islands that look nothing like the cultural mix this country has become. Anti-discrimination laws ensure integration at work, at school, and in public but …a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Confessions of a Medicaid Mom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Dixon Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When my husband and I were signing the documents to adopt our three children from foster care, we didn’t realize we were becoming Medicaid parents. As wards of the state of Texas, our children’s health care was provided by the state until our adoption was finalized 6-8 months later. Only after their names had been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>To Bind the Wounds: 3 Millennials write the Trump Inaugural Address</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Dixon Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2016]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SMU]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the things I love about my day job is the joy of watching my students surprise themselves with their own gifts and talents. I also adore the fact that our Corporate Communication and Public Affairs program is the home to some of the most successful political, corporate and non-profit strategic communicators in America. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Complicated: The Bishop and Eddie Long</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Dixon Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eddie Long]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Birth]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, daddy died. He would laugh to hear me call him that after all these years. Especially since I swore, I would never, ever, call him that name that he loved so much. I said at the time, “I refuse to play into Eddie’s “daddy” complex.” But today, daddy is dead. Ours was a complicated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In the year that Hillary lost I saw the Lord: Christmas, HRC, and Hope</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Dixon Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 18:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since November 8th, like many people of my political ilk, I have been in a funk. I haven’t watched the news since that night nor have I read anything other than twitter. My tv shows have consisted of Paw Patrol, Peppa Pig, and Bob’s Burgers (and yes, How to get Away with Murder). I refused [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mama&#8217;s Boy: A Birthday letter to my black son</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Dixon Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tiger: I hated missing you wake up on your first birthday in your forever home. You know how I love coming in your room, tickling your tummy, and giving you tiger kisses on special days. I would have loved to have seen your happy farmer dance or today’s birthday Beyonce Ballet. But in a sad [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>After the morning after: Taylor Swift, United Methodists, and West Coast Heartbreak</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Dixon Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[General Conference 2016]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Ordination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methodist]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I realize that I have underestimated the impact that my parents’ divorce has had on my view of the world, particularly regarding relationships. Studies show that children of divorce are prone to one of two extremes: they become obsessed with the rules and commitments governing a relationship, or they become very nonchalant about commitments—when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Midnight in Dallas: What&#8217;s going on?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Dixon Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[African American Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African American Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mother, mother There’s too many of you crying Brother, brother, brother There’s far too many of you dying You know we’ve got to find a way To bring some lovin’ here today, eheh What’s Going On-Marvin Gaye   I was a little girl when I first heard this song. I was a 50-year-old woman when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Progressives Playing with Fire: Mad Methodists, Berners, &#038; the Myth of Prophetic Arson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Dixon Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2016 14:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2016]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Progressive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MFSA]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It could be that after three days with the combo of strep throat and the flu, my fever finally broke. It could be that the end of the semester is finally here. It could be that now that Scandal isn’t coming back on for at least 6-8 months, I can pay more attention. Whatever it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Half Century of Being Black in America: A letter to my children</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Dixon Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[African American Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#blacklivesmatter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My babies: Today, I turn 50 years old. I have just come from turning off your lights, placing Doc McStuffins in the bed, and fretting over if this will be a ‘dry night’. I can’t believe that I am writing this to you. Just three months ago, you weren’t in my life. You were a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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