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		<title>God and Forgiveness on the Bathroom Floor: Immaculee Ilibagiza and the Rwandan Genocide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some books are so powerful, so disturbing, I almost hesitates to recommend them or pass along a copy to a friend. Left to Tell, a spiritual autobiography written by a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, is one such book. A friend who read it at her church lent it to me, and the book spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Moral Lives of Foreign Correspondents</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visiting a slum in Nairobi is like walking through a haunted house: a horror around every corner. You have to step carefully to avoid slipping into the open sewers. You see and hear and smell that people are living in situations very close to hell on earth. It&#8217;s hard to fight the overwhelming urge to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding God on Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s &#8220;Road&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Lickona, the 30-something Catholic traditionalist and author, wrote in his 2006 book, Swimming with Scapulars, that looking at the stars and imagining the vast sweep of dark universe beyond sometimes depressed him. Did God&#8217;s law, so tailored for human existence, really apply out there? Reading Cormac McCarthy&#8216;s latest novel, The Road, gives the believing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: Why Horror Attracts, and How We Memorialize It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Abernethy, founder and host of PBSâ€™s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, and co-editor William Bole have compiled 66 of the showâ€™s most interesting interviews in â€œThe Life of Meaning: Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World,â€ published this month by Seven Stories Press. Compressed from lengthy Q+As into â€œspoken essayâ€ form, the brief chapters offer short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We Need the Word &#8216;Evil,&#8217;&#8221; Says Religion Scholar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Geddes, associate professor of religious studies and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, has written extensively on the subject of evil. ReligionWriter spoke with her this morning about using the term &#8220;evil&#8221; to describe the Virginia Tech shooter. ReligionWriter: What does the word &#8220;evil&#8221; mean? Jennifer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scholar on VTech Tragedy: Theodicy Has Many Faces</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporting on a tragedy follows a set trajectory, and many reporters today are writing &#8220;what sense can we make of it?&#8221; stories, often using faith leaders as sources. Over the coming week, the otherwise arcane theological term &#8220;theodicy&#8221; will crop up in news stories across the country. To take a deeper look at theodicy, ReligionWriter [...]]]></description>
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