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		<title>&#8220;The Slow March of Light&#8221; Highlights The Human Spirit&#8217;s Strength</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren McKeithen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The summer of 1961 was undoubtedly one to remember. Between 1949 and 1961, 2.5 million East Germans fled East Germany to settle in West Germany, including an increasing number of professionals, intellectuals, and skilled workers. Their departure almost destroyed the economic sustainability of the East German state. As a response, East Germany built a wall [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice&#8221; Recounts The Titanic&#8217;s Tragic Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows the tragic story of the Titanic; it’s the subject of numerous documentaries and a 1997 feature film starring Leonard di Caprio and Kate Winslet. The Titanic was a beautiful ship that advertisers said was unsinkable. However, the tragic truth was quite the opposite. Throughout the trip, crew members received iceberg warnings. On the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How To Judge The Bible By Its Cover</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When it comes to religious texts, the context in which we encounter their words can often be just as important as the meaning behind them. At the University of Glasgow, Dr. Garrick Allen and his team are researching the way paratexts—or all the aesthetic features of a book beyond the main text itself, such as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Life is an Endless Invitation: Q&#038;A With Rob Bell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Rob Bell’s latest book, “Everything is Spiritual: Who We Are and What We’re Doing Here,” he delves into the questions that have shaped his life and work. Bell, a New York Times bestselling author and renowned speaker, has written ten books. This one is deeply personal. The book explores how ideas like creation, love, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rethinking Ritual for a Secular Age: An Interview with Casper ter Kuile</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his first book, The Power of Ritual (HarperOne), Casper ter Kuile makes a case for the value and relevance of personal and group practices—rituals. We need ritual, he argues, now more than ever, to make sense of life, to find purpose, to connect with others. Co-host of the popular “Harry Potter and the Sacred [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Even the Faith Giants Didn’t Always Get it Right: Q&#038;A With Frank Viola</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In November 2014, bestselling author Frank Viola was given a special task by Rick Warren. He asked him to write a series of articles called “Shocking Beliefs of [the Great Theologians]” on his blog. The one objective? To call for grace, civility and tolerance among Christians when they disagree with one another over doctrinal issues. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Author Lily Burana on Experiencing God&#8217;s Grace and Her Journey to Spiritual Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A woman in crisis, Lily Burana had tried everything to cope with the debilitating depression and anxiety that plagued her on a daily basis. Therapy, medication, meditation – you name it, Lily had tried it but nothing was giving her the relief she so desperately needed. Fearing she was on the verge of death, Lily tried [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From Newark to the Throne Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m a lawyer and a novelist. In response to the events that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014 (and many other places since then), I decided to write a story. In doing so, I looked in the mirror and saw a sixty-one-year-old white man raised in the South.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Movies Are Prayers&#8221;: A New Way of Discussing Film</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Movies are Prayers is one of the best books that I’ve read this year, and I’m a graduate student with a side-job of writing books reviews. What Larsen has done in this brief book is tremendously impressive. Larsen has created a new way of discussing films, a “film theory” in which readers are invited to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How the Church Can Heal the Race Divide</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A chart featured in The Myth of Equality compares the amount of time that slavery and segregation have been legal realities in the United States to the amount of time they have not. Slavery existed in America for 246 years, including the time before the United States achieved independence. Segregation existed legally for another 99 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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