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		<title>Inspiration and Vacation, with a Small Dose of Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s August now &#8212; and time to take a break. When I launched this website in April, 2007, my biggest concern was not getting burned out.  I had seen some statistics somewhere (which I&#8217;m too lazy to Google just now, so you&#8217;ll have to trust me) that lots of blogs die out quickly. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama in Lynchburg: The Faith-versus-Works Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a photo I took this weekend while driving through Lynchburg, the central Virginia town where religious right leader Jerry Falwell ministered and built Liberty University. The sign outside this small church reads, as you can see: &#8220;USA TELL OBAMA JESUS CHRIST NEEDED FOR SALVATION READ ACTS 4:12.&#8221;
Part of the reason this sign caught my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Heck Is the Emerging Church? A &#8220;Velvet Elvis&#8221; Answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I always like new ideas, and I relish nothing more than watching big, paradigm-shifting movements overturn the status quo. (This probably has something to do with my birth-order position as a &#8220;rebellious&#8221; second child, but anyways.) Emergent Christianity has tickled my interest recently because it is just that: a completely new way of doing things. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When God Goes Bad: Shalom Auslander&#8217;s Memoir of Rotten Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t like doing: Writing frankly about my own life. Here&#8217;s something I love doing: Reading other people write frankly about their lives. As a result, I love Shalom Auslander&#8217;s book, Foreskin&#8217;s Lament, in which he writes with a hilarious, tragic clarity about his life as a recovering Orthodox Jew.
Luckily, Auslander is funny [...]]]></description>
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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>When Orthodoxy Is Good for You: Making Sense of the &#8220;Hajj Effect&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Headlines about Islam usually write themselves: A Muslim blowing up innocent people is dog-bites-man. A Muslim acting thoughtful or funny or anything besides angry is man-bites-dog. The obvious headline from a recent academic study, &#8220;Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam&#8217;s Global Gathering,&#8221;  fell into the latter category: Three economists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Obama&#8217;s Real &#8220;Faith Asset&#8221; His Ability to Speak the Language of American Civil Religion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last June, at the Wharton Leadership Conference, Richard Greene, a well-known public speaking coach, offered his prediction that Barack Obama would win the Democratic nomination on the basis of his amazing strengths as an orator. Glossing over the fact that Greene said Romney would win the Republican nomination for the same reason (great speaking skills), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neuroscience is Not Just for Buddhists: Reflections on the Physiology of Belief</title>
		<link>http://www.religionwriter.com/featured/neuroscience-is-not-just-for-buddhists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mega-pundit David Brooks has been talking a lot about neuroscience and religion lately. His column, &#8220;The Neural Buddhists,&#8221; was on the New York Times&#8216; &#8220;Most Emailed&#8221; list, and at this month&#8217;s Faith Angle conference in Key West &#8212; where the Pew Forum on Religion &#38; Public LIfe invites the nation&#8217;s elite journalists to talk religion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergent Islam? Surfing toward an Ultra-modern American Faith Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 13:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes while doing research for a writing project, I will end up spending several hours or an entire afternoon or evening clicking from one website to the next, engrossed in the world of online content. My writing project these days is about how religious congregations use Web 2.0 technologies &#8212; research that will culminate this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Polygamy Have a Legal Future in the U.S.?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Having written previously about polyamory (maintaining multiple romantic relationships) and polygamy (well, really, polygyny &#8212; having more than one wife at at time,) I have been intensely interested in the on-going case in Texas, in which more than 400 children of polygamists were put into temporary state custody following allegations of physical and sexual abuse [...]]]></description>
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