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		<title>Episcopalians to consecrate second gay bishop</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/17/episcopalians-to-consecrate-second-gay-bishop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Episcopal Church announced that it will consecrate its second non-celibate gay bishop this May. Mary Glasspool was elected bishop on December 5 but was waiting for a majority of the diocesan bishops and &#8220;standing committees&#8221; in the jurisdiction to approve her consecration.
To approve a bishop&#8217;s consecration, a majority of the standing committees must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT reports on the &#8220;Camel Method&#8221; of evangelizing Muslims</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/13/nyt-reports-on-the-camel-method-of-evangelizing-muslims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Camel Method]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t normally expect to open the front section of the New York Times in order to read about Christian missiology (the study of missions and evangelism). But that is what we find in today&#8217;s issue, as a recent conversation (some might say controversy) among Southern Baptists has now moved to a much-wider audience:
Here is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rev. Wright in DC, but not to see Obama</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/12/rev-wright-in-dc-but-not-to-see-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/12/rev-wright-in-dc-but-not-to-see-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Jeremiah Wright, spoke with The Washington Post yesterday, echoing what he&#8217;s said previously about his relationship with one of his former parishioners, President Obama.
&#8220;I have not stopped loving him because of what the press did, and to see him beat up on because of things [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>SCOTUS to rule on funeral protests</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/09/scotus-to-rule-on-funeral-protests/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/09/scotus-to-rule-on-funeral-protests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fred-phelps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supreme-court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[westboro-baptist-church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The notorious head of Westboro Baptist Church (which isn&#8217;t affiliated with any mainline Baptist denominations), Fred Phelps Sr., will have his day in court &#8211; the Supreme Court. The justices agreed to review a case where the father of fallen soldier Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder sued Phelps and his church for protesting outside his son&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>74</slash:comments>
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		<title>Protestants on the high court</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/08/protestants-on-the-high-court/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/08/protestants-on-the-high-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[john-paul-stevens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supreme-court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Justice John Paul Stevens, the only Protestant on the Supreme Court, turns 90 next month. The Washington Post raises a question that others have raised before: Should President Obama appoint a Protestant to replace Stevens when he retires? Six of the justices are Catholic, two are Jewish. Some of the justices themselves argue their personal religions [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bibles are “smut”</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/05/bibles-are-%e2%80%9csmut%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/05/bibles-are-%e2%80%9csmut%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Segelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For three days this week, a student group at the University of Texas at San Antonio has been offering fellow students free pornography in exchange for their Bibles (or any other “holy books”).

The organization, named “The Atheist Agenda,” calls its campaign “Smut for Smut.” Members sit at a table in the lobby of the humanities [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>150</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;I Am Not Ashamed&#8221; campaign</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/04/i-am-not-ashamed-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/04/i-am-not-ashamed-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Lu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorldMagBlog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://online.worldmag.com/?p=28391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyday we’re bombarded with advertising for the newest thing.  The new mop that will reach every corner. The new diet pill that will really work this time.  The new DVD coming out with never-before-seen footage. But starting this week you might be seeing ads for something much, much older&#8211;the Bible.
This is all part [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is the black church really dead?</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/03/is-the-black-church-really-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/03/is-the-black-church-really-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[moral issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The black church in America may be lukewarm, but it is not “dead” as suggested in an article by Eddie S. Glaude Jr., the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. While Glaude offers fantastic observations about the how the black church has lost [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Imagine</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/03/imagine-2/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/03/imagine-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrée Seu</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://online.worldmag.com/?p=28333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a little essay for the print magazine about why I don’t like to call myself “Reformed” more than 10 times a week, and it prompted this good question from one reader:
“OK, I agree that labels can obscure the Lord, but can you suggest an alternative for discerning a speaker’s orthodoxy? There are many [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Income by religion</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/02/24/income-by-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/02/24/income-by-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Lu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorldMagBlog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new infographic that breaks down income levels in the U.S. by religion has been circling the web. Created by GOOD and Column Five Media the graph is based on information from the Pew Forum and it compares the income level of each religion to the national average.
According to the graph, the richest religion is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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