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		<title>Super Bowl XLVI: Football and faith go prime time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl Sunday is a holy day of sorts for the tens of millions of Americans who will watch the big game – at least as many as will attend actual religious services that day. ReligionLink has resources for reporters covering the links between worship on Sunday morning and the spectacle on Sunday evening.]]></description>
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		<title>Sports and scandal: Religious comparisons and complaints</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sports, at the professional and amateur levels, are enormously popular, and yet athletics are also linked to scandal and controversy in today’s headlines. In the case of allegations of child abuse, the crisis in sports recalls the problem in organized religions, and also highlights the nexus between religion and sports.]]></description>
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		<title>Gods and games: A guide to sports and religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After organized worship, athletic competition is perhaps the oldest communal impulse known to mankind, and today sports and religion mirror each other as never before, experts say. But that correlation has negative as well as positive aspects. This edition of ReligionLink provides a guide to these issues.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and technology, good or evil: The debate goes on</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus is bigger than Justin Bieber? Christians would say that’s true, of course. But when a Facebook page on Jesus outranks the teen idol, then the wider culture begins to take notice.]]></description>
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		<title>God and Facebook: Is social networking changing religion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arts, media & Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congregations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social networks like Facebook are all the rage, with some claiming that online communities are deepening our interpersonal relationships while others worry that they are undermining them -- and our spiritual lives. Pope Benedict XVI has weighed in on virtual friendships, while a new poll shows more churches are using Facebook.]]></description>
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		<title>December dilemma: How to write about the holidays &#8212; again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holidays can be a holy daze of celebrations, and for reporters a monthlong challenge to find new angles on old traditions. December is a particularly busy month for holidays -- just look at the stores -- and this edition of ReligionLink offers some bargain tips for journalists shopping for story ideas.]]></description>
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		<title>Islam, America and the prophet: Muslims face questions, debates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslims in America today find themselves at the crossroads of many contentious issues -- political, religious and cultural. So it is not surprising that controversies have again put Islam in the headlines, from a dispute over the show South Park to the cancellation of Franklin Graham's appearance at a Pentagon prayer event.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and film: &#8216;Holywood&#8217; goes to the Oscars</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_100302.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Academy Awards ceremony on March 7 features a bumper crop of films, many that are built around spiritual, and sometimes overtly religious, themes. Are 2009&#8242;s movies really more spiritually focused than films of recent years? Has Hollywood found religion? Or are producers just recognizing that religion sells? Whatever the reason, there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gods and games: From the Super Bowl to the Winter Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After organized worship, athletic competition is perhaps the oldest communal impulse known to mankind, and today sports and religion mirror each other as never before, experts say. Nowhere will that be more evident than on Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 7 and during the Winter Olympics that run from Feb. 12-28. Some 130 million American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity gods: The religion of stardom</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_100105.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elvis Presley&#8217;s 75th birthday is Jan. 8 and is evoking the kind of devotion often associated with &#8220;the King&#8221; &#8212; as well as with the &#8220;King of Pop,&#8221; Michael Jackson, whose death last year was accompanied by an almost worshipful outpouring. What explains this widespread cult of celebrity? Is it a religious phenomenon? The secular [...]]]></description>
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