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	<title>Blogging Religiously</title>
	
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		<title>Religious leaders in support of gay marriage: The list</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/19/religious-leaders-in-support-of-gay-marriage-the-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clergy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire State Pride Agenda]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Empire State Pride Agenda has released a list of more than 700 clergy and lay leaders who support gay marriage in New York.

	They divided the list by region: Buffalo, Albany, Central NY, Hudson Valley and the Catskills, Long Island, NYC and Rochester/Finger Lakes.

	Since they went through the trouble, here are the signees from the [...]<br/>
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		<title>Can a cathedral be a secular hall?</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/18/can-a-cathedral-be-a-secular-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans United for Separation of Church and State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloomfield CT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commencement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enfield CT schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High school graduation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Space crunch]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Is it okay for public schools to rent out a big Christian church for commencement ceremonies?

	The ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State don&#8217;t think so.

	They&#8217;ve asked the Enfield (Conn.) public schools to stop holding graduation at The First Cathedral in Bloomfield, Conn. (north of Hartford), a 120,000-square-foot church that &#8220;is steeped [...]<br/>
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		<title>Also at the bishops conference…</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/17/also-at-the-bishops-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardinal George]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic bishops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Priests]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my Tastykakes post earlier today, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is meeting in Baltimore (where the Catholic Church got its start in the U.S.).

	The agenda has to do with more than sweet cream (and whatever else Tastykakes are made of).

	Cardinal George of Chicago (right), the president of the Bishops posse, [...]<br/>
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		<title>How many will he eat?</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/17/how-many-will-he-eat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archbishop Dolan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cardinal Rigali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tastykakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Series]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I fancy myself something of a snack cake connoisseur, but I&#8217;m not sure that I&#8217;ve ever had a Tastykake.

	It is a regional Philadelphia-based snack cake, of several varieties.

	Which is why Philadelphia&#8217;s Cardinal Justin Rigali bet a box of them in his World Series wager with Archbishop Dolan (who promised bagels and cream cheese).

	As this picture [...]<br/>
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		<title>There’s something about Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/16/theres-something-about-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Jewish Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interfaith relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interreligous relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peekskill Area Pastor's Association]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tis the season for interfaith get-togethers.

	Around Thanksgiving, numerous local groups pull together people from different faiths for a few prayers and snacks. You usually get mostly mainline Protestants and Jews, with a smattering of Catholics and Orthodox Christians and a Muslim or two.

	At least that&#8217;s the mix in the NY burbs.

	The Westchester chapter of the [...]<br/>
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		<title>Jews return to the ring</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/13/jews-return-to-the-ring/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/13/jews-return-to-the-ring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA["Orthodox Stance"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amir Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Salita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish boxers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yuri Foreman]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe that boxing was once one of America&#8217;s favorite sports, right up there with baseball.

	It&#8217;s also hard to believe that there was an era of great Jewish fighters, like Benny Leonard and Barney Ross.

	So it&#8217;s noteable that an Orthodox Jewish Israeli middleweight named Yuri Foreman will fight for the WBA World Championship [...]<br/>
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		<title>Be compassionate</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/12/be-compassionate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charter for Compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Armstrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA TODAY]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I blogged this morning for USA TODAY&#8217;S Faith &#038; Reason blog about a new statement calling for&#8212;are you ready for this&#8212;compassion.

	It&#8217;s true.

	Author Karen Armstrong, who has written several popular books about religion, and a bunch of religious leaders and celebrities have produced a &#8220;Charter for Compassion,&#8221; calling for people to be compassionate toward other people.

	That&#8217;s [...]<br/>
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		<title>Muslims in the military</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/11/muslims-in-the-military/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fort Hood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslims in military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veterans Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In light of this being Veteran&#8217;s Day and the continuing grief over Fort Hood, I wanted to cite a Washington Post article about Muslims in the military.

	The Post&#8217;s Michelle Boorstein reports that &#8220;3,557 members of the 1.4 million-member U.S. armed forces describe themselves as Muslim.&#8221;

	She summarizes:

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	Active and retired Muslim service members recalled difficulties concerning their [...]<br/>
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		<title>Looking for a ‘miracle in Manhattan’</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/10/looking-for-a-miracle-in-manhattan/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/10/looking-for-a-miracle-in-manhattan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA["Miracle in Manhattan"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alliance Theological Seminary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian & Missionary Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nyack College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nyack NY]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In this economy, you don&#8217;t see many institutions expanding.

	But Nyack College, which is run by the evangelical Christian &#038; Missionary Alliance, is looking for a new property in Manhattan. Nyack College&#8212;one of only 2 Christian colleges with a presence in NYC&#8212;is currently using two rented spaces in the city.

	Tomorrow (Nov. 11), Nyack College will hold [...]<br/>
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		<title>A more literary Bible</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/09/a-more-literary-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/09/a-more-literary-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA["A Literary Bible"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Counterpoint Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Rosenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genesis]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I received a copy of &#8220;A Literary Bible,&#8221; an original translation by Bible scholar David Rosenberg.

	Every few days, someone walking past my desk will see the fat book and say something along the lines of &#8220;Isn&#8217;t the regular, old Bible literary?&#8221;

	That is the book&#8217;s reputation.

	According to some promotional material, &#8220;In [...]<br/>
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