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		<title>Growing tensions on the Faith and Family Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was one of those symbolic questions that pollsters toss into the mix when probing fault lines inside political coalitions. The Pew Research Center recently asked, as part of its “Beyond Red vs. Blue” political typology project, whether voters agreed or disagreed that it is “necessary to believe in God to be moral.” Among the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Religious leaders struggle to reach &#8217;emerging adults&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When leaders of traditional faith groups think about reaching out to Millennials, religious seekers, unaffiliated “Nones” and other postmodern young Americans, this is the voice that many keep hearing in their heads. “Morality is how I feel too, because in my heart, I could feel it,” said one person interviewed in the National Study of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pain, hope and schisms in the long Anglican wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anglicans seem to be hopeful about their flocks in the United States, even if the warring factions in their Communion keep moving further and further apart. That was a common theme in two upbeat recent sermons preached by leaders in the progressive and orthodox Anglican bodies now competing in the marketplace of American religion. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Clergy, temptation, sex abuse and the law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Surely one of our world’s most endangered species — right up there with the Mountain Gorilla or the Sumatran Tiger — is the church “ministerius youthii.” That was the conviction of the late Louis McBurney, a Mayo Clinic-trained psychiatrist who spent decades at his Colorado retreat center helping ministers crushed by the demands and temptations [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sobering words define a young priest&#8217;s life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As sermons go, it was not the kind of pulpit performance that — when it was given — created a buzz in the pews. The young Catholic priest’s voice was flat and subdued, his face calm but not expressive. After all, he was only a year or so into his priesthood and preaching was still [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A wry case for using beer in evangelism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While he knows that millions of teetotalling Christians disagree, Father William Miller believes he can make a theological case for the moderate consumption of beer through a simple use of evangelistic math. “Beer is the universal beverage. If you want to sit down and have a friendly, personal conversation with about 90 percent of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ann B. Davis was much, much more than &#8216;Alice&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Soon after its birth, the MTV network tried to branch out with “Remote Control,” a hipper than hip game show. Contestants were quizzed on media trivia including a category called, “Alive or dead?” The goal was to guess the current status of pop-culture icons. One day in 1988 the name “Ann B. Davis” popped up [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pope, patriarch, primacy and the press</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Holy Land pilgrimage by Pope Francis contained plenty of symbolic gestures, photo ops and sound bites crafted to slip into broadcasts, ink and Twitter. There was his direct flight into the West Bank, the first papal “State of Palestine” reference and the silent prayer with his forehead against the concrete security wall between Bethlehem [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>British rabbi stands to defend America&#8217;s first freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 12:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks arrived in America recently representatives of the United States government did not greet him with a demand that Great Britain’s former chief rabbi remove his yarmulke while in public. That’s a good thing. But there are places — France leaps to mind — where this would not be the case. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The quest for safe, generic, &#8216;ceremonial&#8217; prayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 12:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the members of the Town of Greece Board prepared for business, a local Catholic priest rose to offer a short prayer. “Heavenly Father, you guide and govern everything with order and love,” said Father John Forni, of St. John the Evangelist parish. “Look upon this assembly of our town leaders. … May they always [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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