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		<title>The Manhattan Declaration</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/20/the-manhattan-declaration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Manhattan Declaration was released today at noon:
More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration Friday reaffirming their opposition to abortion and gay marriage and pledging to protect religious freedoms.
The 4,700-word document, called &#8220;The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience,&#8221; sounds familiar themes from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving back toward Christmas</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/20/moving-back-toward-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mickey McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it&#8217;s about trees, parades, festivals, displays, or greetings, the outcry this time of year usually involves someone deciding to call something &#8220;holiday&#8221; rather than &#8220;Christmas.&#8221; Not so in the community of Patchogue on New York&#8217;s Long Island. Last year, the town and the local chamber of commerce were concerned about a popular annual event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A secular look at Dave Ramsey</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/20/a-secular-look-at-dave-ramsey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic this month offers a piece on Christian financial guru Dave Ramsey &#8211; any of you used his advice? The author, Megan McArdle, summarizes his advice thus:
[G]ive 10 percent of your income to charity, save 15 percent for retirement, build up a sizable emergency stash and a college fund for your kids, and above [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teens, God, and taking the Lord&#8217;s name in vain</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/20/teens-god-and-taking-the-lords-name-in-vain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Segelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every week, my local newspaper runs a small piece called “A Student’s View,” written, as you can probably guess, by a high school student on the topic of his or her choice.
In a recent one, titled “Oh my God,” a Jewish girl wrote protesting her parents’ insistence that she attend synagogue services for the High [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lutheran CORE moves quickly to form new denomination</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/19/lutheran-core-moves-quickly-to-form-new-denomination/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/19/lutheran-core-moves-quickly-to-form-new-denomination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mickey McLean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a vote in September to spend a year considering the formation of a new denomination, Lutheran CORE (Coalition for Renewal) has shifted into high gear to distance itself from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The move is in reaction to a vote taken in August by the ELCA to allow practicing homosexuals in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>66</slash:comments>
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		<title>Christians freed</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/19/christians-freed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mindy Belz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Captives Maryam Rustampoor, 27, and Marzieh Esmaeilabad, 30, were freed today by Iranian authorities after almost nine months&#8217; confinement in Tehran&#8217;s notorious Evin prison for refusing to deny their Christian faith. According to Open Doors and its sources in Iran, the two were set free without bail and are currently at home.
As I reported in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not Paul, but . . .</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/18/im-not-paul-but/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The grandiosity and confidence of some theologians and pastors in an age of democratic theology is something the early church fathers would find puzzling. If you’re attending a vibrant church, it seems easy to assume that your church must be “right.” In evangelicalism, what qualifies as credible is often church size and pastoral charisma. If [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>More Muslims in the military</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/17/more-muslims-in-the-military/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/17/more-muslims-in-the-military/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Kaplan writes at the Atlantic that in the United States&#8217; current battles abroad, having more Muslims in the ranks is vital.
Inevitably, a minute percentage of these Muslim recruits may be influenced by jihadist propaganda, which certainly seems to have been the case with Maj. Hasan. So what do we do?
Better security surveillance and background [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meaning for radicals</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/16/meaning-for-radicals/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/16/meaning-for-radicals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Wishing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, most Americans have at least heard of the godfather of community organizing, Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), and his 1971 book, Rules for Radicals. Turn on conservative talk radio any day and there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ll hear Alinsky&#8217;s Rule No. 13 cited derisively: &#8220;Pick the target, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Life without parole for juveniles?</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/14/25363/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/14/25363/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Young and the Reckless,&#8221; an op-ed in today&#8217;s New York Times, provides us an opportunity to think through the issue of &#8220;life without parole&#8221; sentencing of juveniles here in America.
On Monday, the United   States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that ask whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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