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		<title>The Role of Women in the Bible</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/bible/2011/the-role-of-women-in-the-bible.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Peter Stockton
&#8220;A kindhearted woman gains respect, but ruthless men gain only wealth.&#8221;  Proverbs 11:16
Some countries view women as second-class citizens. Women in these countries  are entitled to less rights. They receive less education, less training. They  are seen as a burden in the household except the time when a man needs a woman  to carry his children and continue his ...]]></description>
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		<title>Are Black Clergy Taking a Hike on Social Reform?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Meta J. Mereday
Every Sunday (and for some folks it is every Saturday), millions of people  put on their &#8220;Sunday best&#8221; and pack the pews, padded seats, folding chairs and  rough hewn benches of facilities nationwide that constitute their places of  spiritual worship.
While religion is practiced the world over, the connection for Black people  to their church and the Black clergy ...]]></description>
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		<title>Separation of Church and Sports</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/christianity/2009/separation-of-church-and-sports.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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A recent editorial in USA Today takes athletes like Heisman trophy winner  Tim Tebow to task for their frequent acknowledgments of Jesus Christ. Author Tom  Krattenmaker particularly takes issue with the insistence of Tebow and other  Christian athletes that Jesus Christ is the only way to God.
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		<title>Christmas Wars Come Early</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/christianity/2009/christmas-wars-come-early.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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The Grinch struck early this fall when government authorities banned  religious messages from the ornaments displayed on the Christmas tree at the US  Capitol building.
Courtesy: Coral Ridge Ministries
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		<title>Does Morality Depend on the Situation?</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/ethics/2009/does-morality-depend-on-the-situation.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Shank
A friend of mine states that his life is guided by &#8220;situational ethics.&#8221; What is that? Let&#8217;s answer this question with a basic understanding of where our &#8220;morality&#8221; comes from. There&#8217;s three basic viewpoints;

Absolutism states that there is an absolute standard of right and wrong, and this concept comes from the Bible.
Nihilism says that God does not exist, and we can do anything ...]]></description>
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		<title>Where Did the Gospel Go?</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/christianity/2009/where-did-the-gospel-go.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billions of people are living in poverty around the world. About 2.8 billion people are living on less than two dollars a day. Millions are dying from starvation and diseases in the Third World. The global financial crisis has caused millions to lose their home and the world has probably just seen the beginning of a major global crisis that not even the financial experts ...]]></description>
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		<title>Was the Creation of Western Society Good, Evil or Both?</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/christianity/2009/was-the-creation-of-western-society-good-evil-or-both.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the one organization that has had the most influence on the development of western culture over the last two thousand years? What institution has had the power to strike terror in entire countries with the threat of a simple executive decision? What organization can arguably be held responsible for the destruction of entire primitive societies, in order to promote their own expansion of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Morality &#8211; Can We Be &#8216;Good&#8217; Without God?</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/christianity/2009/morality-can-we-be-good-without-god.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 22:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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Dr. William Lane Craig, Religious scholar, theologian, and philosopher on the topic of religion&#8217;s interaction with morality. Is this a serious issue? Can we be moral beings without a God?
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		<title>Lights, Camera, Blasphemy: Hollywood &amp; Religion</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/ethics/2009/lights-camera-blasphemy-hollywood-and-religion.html</link>
		<comments>http://examiningfaith.com/ethics/2009/lights-camera-blasphemy-hollywood-and-religion.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 23:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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An examination of the modern media&#8217;s anti-Christian bias. This video not only exposes the depth of our culture&#8217;s rebellion against God, it outlines a practical strategy for what the individual and the Church can do to tear down the &#8220;idol of entertainment&#8221; that threatens both us and our land.
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		<title>Group says NY Times Distorts 1st Amendment to Secularize Society</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/other-beliefs/new-age/2008/group-says-ny-times-distorts-1st-amendment-to-secularize-society.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Feder, editor of the Boycott The New York Times website, called a Times editorial demanding &#8220;equal space&#8221; for the display of religious symbols part of the paper&#8217;s &#8220;relentless drive to secularize society.&#8221;
In a November 12 editorial, The Times urged the Supreme Court to rule that a Ten Commandments display in a public park in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, violated the First Amendment&#8217;s Establishment Clause ...]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Abuse: The Modern Day Pharisee</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/the-church/2008/spiritual-abuse-the-modern-day-pharisee.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Spiritual Abuse”, a catch phrase coined in recent years by Author’s David Johnson &#38; Jeff VanVonderen, is as old as organized religion itself. For most, the historical events which best portray spiritual abuse include the Holy Wars, The Inquisition, the persecution of many eastern Europeans at the hands of the Orthodox church. While many would consider spiritual abuse to be a seldom occurring event today, ...]]></description>
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		<title>What is Happening to Evangelical Christianity?</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/christianity/2008/what-is-happening-to-evangelical-christianity.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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False doctrine is difficult to point out to many people because they are not seeking truth but are only interested in hearing the doctrines they want to hear. They want to believe their false doctrine so badly, they refuse to listen to anything that contradicts it. When this happens, a hardening of the heart takes place because truth is rejected from the outset. This is the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Straitjackets on Campus</title>
		<link>http://examiningfaith.com/christianity/2008/straitjackets-on-campus.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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San Jose City College professor June Sheldon was recently fired for expressing an alternative view on the causes of homosexuality and lesbianism. If all it takes to end a teaching career is one brief, evidence-based foray outside the narrow boundaries of politically correctness, freedom will vanish from college campuses.
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		<title>Young Nuns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vatican reported that the number of Catholics in religious orders around the world continued to decline. In the latest figures for 2006, there were just over 945,555 monks and nuns, down about 7,555 from the year before. The overwhelming majority, 753,555, about 80 percent, were women. Around the U.S. the number of nuns has also been going down, and their average age rising. Watch ...]]></description>
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		<title>Intolerance: A Christian Virtue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular opinion in these early years of the twenty-first century has assailed our minds with &#8220;politically correct&#8221; sentiment. In keeping with this viewpoint a garbage man ought to be dubbed a &#8220;sanitation engineer&#8221; and a short person is not short he is &#8220;vertically challenged.&#8221; Even the term thief might offend so we should adopt the more tolerant &#8220;ethically disoriented.&#8221; This paradigm bares its true farcical ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Unbearable Darkness of Being Without God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news is not good. A Governor of a large state throws everything away for a few hours of hidden pleasure with an expensive prostitute. Common sense would suggest such behavior is insane, but is it? Or a presidential candidate spins a tall tale about her brush with sniper fire on an official trip to war torn Bosnia. But TV cameras had followed her to ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Nicene Creed Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nicene Creed was originally written at the first council of Nicaea in 325 AD as a guide to help early Christians understand their faith and as a response to the rising belief in Arianism.
Arius was a presbyter in Alexandria in the early fourth century. Arianism taught that the father created the son in the beginning, and then the father and the son continued to create ...]]></description>
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		<title>Scholars Plan to Reunite Ancient Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again &#8211; online.
Discovered at the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai by German Bible scholar Constantine Tischendorf in the mid-19th century, much of the Codex eventually wound up in Russia &#8211; just how exactly the British Library won&#8217;t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Was Jesus a Radical Feminist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The stories Jesus told and the stories told about him are examined in great depth in Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women. Father Andrew M. Greeley spotlights Christ&#8217;s view and treatment of the opposite sex.
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		<title>The Culturally-Savvy Christian</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does Christian culture influence pop culture, and should the Christian faith in turn be influenced by secular culture? This is the critical question tackled in Dick Stauband&#8217;s thought-provoking book, The Culturally Savvy Christian.

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