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		<title>Southern Baptists face numbers crunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baptisms have dropped to a 20-year low in the Southern Baptist Convention, and membership and giving are down, too. The declines are causing hand-wringing in the nation&#8217;s largest Protestant body &#8212; and setting the stage for intense debates when SBC leaders gather on June 23-24 in Louisville, Ky., for their annual convention. What will they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tortured debate: the morality of prisoner abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 05:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is torture ever justified? The answer is clear to American believers &#8211; but for some that answer is clearly &#8220;yes,&#8221; for others it is definitely &#8220;no.&#8221; And that stark moral divide is shaping a debate that is growing more intense even years after the first revelations of prisoner abuse. The arguments are fueled in part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping for religion widespread, Pew survey finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Americans change religious affiliation early and often.&#8221; That is the upshot of a new report on religious switching from the Pew Forum on Religion &#38; Public Life, released Monday, April 27, 2009. The report, titled &#8220;Faith in Flux: Changes in Religious Affiliation in the U.S.,&#8221; follows up and expands on findings of the landmark U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening after Eden: the ethics of food production</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food and agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crocuses are up, the days are growing longer, and Earth Day is almost here. Must be spring. And in back yards and window boxes &#8211; and outside houses of worship across the country &#8211; members are turning the soil and planting gardens. But it&#8217;s not just the lush beauty of flowers, plants and trees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten years after Columbine: gun violence, moral questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Current edition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre falls on April 20, and April 16 marks two years since the devastating shooting at Virginia Tech, which claimed the lives of 32 people. That remains the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in United States history. But a series of eight gun attacks in March [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish-Christian relations: taking stock at the holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[eMinders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arrival of Holy Week, which begins with Palm Sunday on April 5, and Passover, which starts at sundown on Wednesday, April 8, is an occasion to reflect on the inextricable bonds between Judaism and Christianity. But recent events have also shown once again how fraught this relationship can be, despite decades of successful dialogue. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama orders changes on stem cell policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal funding decision left to Congress: During the presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama pledged that one of his priorities would be to lift the nearly eight-year ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. Under the Bush administration, federal funds were approved only for research that used cells from a few select lines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court: Pleasant Grove City v. Summum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[church and state]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled today in the closely-watched Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, allowing city officials to choose which monuments could be placed in a public park. Read the New York Times article, which notes that the justices considered this a free speech case more than a case based on church-state issues; See ReligionLink&#8217;s guide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God and the Oscars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Recent posts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the winner is …! The 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony is this Sunday, and as always there are plenty of religious issues to provide a substantive backdrop to the red-carpet glam. Films have long grappled with questions of ultimate meaning, and this year’s crop is no exception. Whether it’s the more overtly religious Doubt, based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslims on Obama: hope, but also caution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Muslims welcomed President Barack Obama’s inaugural promise of “a new way forward” toward mutual respect between the United States and the Islamic world. That was also followed by his order to shut down the Guantanamo detention camp in Cuba. But scratch the surface and you’ll also find lots of caution. Muslims are leery, as [...]]]></description>
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