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		<title>Bringing beauty to brokenness</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/17/bringing-beauty-to-brokenness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristin Rudolph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Makoto Fujimura is “wrestling with the deeper issues of culture” through art. Fujimura, an artist, spoke last month to students at The King&#8217;s College in New York City, as a part of the school&#8217;s Distinguished Visitor Series. He talked about the importance of art in culture, and the significance of Christians creating art.
Fujimura said that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain makes sex ed mandatory</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/09/britain-makes-sex-ed-mandatory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The age of consent in the UK is 16 but to religious group&#8217;s chagrin, Britain will be teaching sex ed the year before.
The new policies place new restrictions on faith schools. They now have to teach sex ed (before, they could have a policy stating they don&#8217;t teach it), and they will have to include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissolving urban youth para-church ministries</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/28/dissolving-urban-youth-para-church-ministries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do para-church urban youth ministries need to be dissolved and collapsed into neighborhood churches? Do we need urban ministry-minded Christians placing more efforts into teaching in inner-city public schools in order to truly serve the city? I think this may be the way forward. For those Christians with a calling to serve the needs of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neighbors pass by dead body</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/19/neighbors-pass-by-dead-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The body of a 75-year-old man lay on a balcony at an apartment complex for about four days before neighbors alerted authorities &#8211; apparently they thought it was part of a Halloween display.
A newsman on the scene said,
&#8220;The body was in plain view of the entire apartment complex [and] they all didn&#8217;t do anything. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>N.Y. Journal: Take the A train</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/17/n-y-journal-take-the-a-train/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/17/n-y-journal-take-the-a-train/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was not aware that conservatives didn’t like public transportation until someone told me that they believe in a God-given right to an SUV. God may have given a right to an SUV&#8212;I won’t dispute it&#8212;but a new organization and book are working to convince conservatives that public transportation is pretty good, too.
The newly formed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Looking for casual sex? There&#8217;s an app for that.</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/16/looking-for-casual-sex-theres-an-app-for-that/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/16/looking-for-casual-sex-theres-an-app-for-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Segelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about indicators of cultural decline! Amp, an energy drink made by Pepsi, has an application (app, for short) for the iPhone called “Before You Score.” It’s billed as a “roadmap to success with your favorite kinds of women&#8212;24, in all.” Choose your type and get suggestions on how to “score.”
Here’s a boast from the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Revealing new single from Michael Jackson</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/12/revealing-new-single-from-michael-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The internet was abuzz today with the posthumous release of a new single from Michael Jackson: &#8220;This Is It.&#8221; 
The New York Times&#8217; music critics point out that the song is recycled from an earlier song Jackson wrote, then tabled. It resurfaced via Puerto Rican singer Safire. In her version, she sings,
“In the light of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>N.Y. Journal: A constant Christian presence</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/10/n-y-journal-a-constant-christian-presence/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/10/n-y-journal-a-constant-christian-presence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Harris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://online.worldmag.com/?p=24201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lower East Side, New York, has gone  from aristocracy and sophistication to squalor and debauchery and back to aristocracy&#8212;but with one constant  Christian presence for the past 130 years: the Bowery Mission, which has  pulled the homeless from squalor, fed and sheltered them, and helped them  mend their lives with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nixon on abortion</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/08/nixon-on-abortion-2/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/08/nixon-on-abortion-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Al Mohler posted an article today in which he writes about the racial underpinning of the abortion discussion in the 1970&#8217;s. Nixon&#8217;s words are chilling:
Tapes recently released by the Nixon Presidential Library reveal that President Richard M. Nixon, who had been considered generally opposed to abortion, told aides on January 23, 1973 (the day [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reflections on Letterman</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/05/reflecting-on-letterman/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/05/reflecting-on-letterman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now everyone has heard of David Letterman&#8217;s opening monologue wherein he revealed a purported extortion attempt, and his frank admission of the truthfulness behind the blackmail. He admitted, &#8220;Yes, I have. I have had sex with women who work on this show.&#8221; Audience laughter and applause followed.
Here are two pieces to read in thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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