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	<title>ReligionLink &#187; Holiday ideas</title>
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		<title>The season of Lent: Penance, forgiveness and renewal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The penitential season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 9, and runs until Holy Week in April. This period is traditionally viewed as a time of personal spiritual reflection for Christians marked by an effort to repent for sins. But how do people forgive each other, and themselves? How do we deal with guilt?]]></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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		<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>Atheist advertising: Holiday outreach by humanists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[holiday advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several nontheist organizations are launching holiday-themed advertising campaigns aimed at winning followers to their movements or at least blunting criticisms that nonbelievers can't be good without God. ReligionLink has an extensive new source guide to help reporters cover this novel take on the traditional holiday story.]]></description>
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		<title>Story ideas for Lent and Easter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Christians journey through Lent and approach the March 23 celebration of Easter, ReligionLink offers fresh story ideas for the season. Jump to: Lenten carbon fast catches fire Virtual spiritual journeys increase Celebrating communities Easter: Let there be light For more ideas and sources, see ReligionLink’s previous spring holiday editions. Lenten carbon fast catches fire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six story ideas for the holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_071119b.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hajj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hanukkah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kwanzaa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Hanukkah to hajj, from ‘green’ gifts to school celebrations, ReligionLink offers a half-dozen story ideas for the holidays ahead. Ways to love Hanukkah The eight-day festival of Hanukkah, which begins at nightfall Dec. 4 and ends at sunset on Dec. 12, is a minor Jewish holiday – but one of the best-known and most widely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot stuff: five quick story tips</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_070529b.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 02:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need inspiration for stories to fill out summer newsholes, broadcasts and blogs? Check out ReligionLink&#8217;s store of summer story ideas: The drums of worship Taking &#8216;sin&#8217; out of the cinema The church of baseball Faith and fitness Book &#8216;em: the faith pages The drums of worship Drums have been called &#8220;God&#8217;s heartbeat&#8221; by worshippers, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent, Passover and Easter: A roundup of story ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_070319b.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lent is in full swing, and Passover and Easter will arrive shortly. Check out these ideas for a fresh approach to the season. Jump to: Going green for Lent Passover in prison Out of bondage Judas: Misunderstood guy or Gnostic gnonsense? Faith views on suffering Good Friday: a secular holiday, too? Happy Hispanic Easter Sermon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twelve ideas for the December holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_061127.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hanukkah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kwanzaa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is coming . . . but so are Hanukkah, hajj, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Kwanzaa. ReligionLink sends story ideas to the rescue. Visit ReligionLink’s past holiday editions for more December story ideas: 2005: (a merry Hindu Christmas, homelessness, Muslim-American parents’ Christmas dilemma, simplicity) 2004: (silence, debts, Hanukkah merchandise, holiday mission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 hot story ideas for summer</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_060530b.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 22:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The days may get lazy and hazy, but the stories need to keep on coming. ReligionLink&#8217;s staff offers 10 ideas to help reporters keep their editors at bay. Jump to: Faith and African-American family reunions Spirituality on the silver screen Hot enough for ya? Love and marriage … or not Like a controversy: Madonna ignites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten story ideas for the holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_051121a.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tis the season &#8211; again. ReligionLink presents a cache of story ideas for Advent, Christmas and Hanukkah. Jump to: Mary of Nazareth A Merry Hindu Christmas The soundtrack of this Christmas Happy Christmakkah! When it&#8217;s not your holiday Home for the holidays Homeless for the holidays Christmas: A Muslim-American Parent&#8217;s Dilemma Religious toys and games [...]]]></description>
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