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	<title>Blogging Religiously</title>
	<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com</link>
	<description>From a New York point of view</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Another political pastor problem brewing?</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/12/another-political-pastor-problem-brewing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA["Mother Jones"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rod Parsley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	As the Barack Obama-Jeremiah Wright story seems to be losing steam&#8230;

	The venerable investigative magazine Mother Jones is trying to draw attention to John McCain&#8217;s &#8220;pastor problem.&#8221; No, they&#8217;re not talking about John Hagee, but another pastor, Rod Parsley.

	Parsley (that&#8217;s him) is the pastor of a Pentecostal church in Columbus, Ohio, and a pretty prominent televangelist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tornadoes, earthquakes, cyclones, but few answers</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/12/tornadoes-earthquakes-cyclones-but-few-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/12/tornadoes-earthquakes-cyclones-but-few-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA["Acts of God"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Father Thomas Weinandy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Can God Intervene? How Religion Explains Natural Disast]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gary Stern]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Normally, the deaths of at least 22 people who got in the way of tornadoes in Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia would make for the major news story of the day.

	But today is not that day.

	Close to 8,000 people were killed by a major earthquake in central China (photo). We all woke up to reports that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Israel&#8217;s 60th, an &#8216;evolving&#8217; relationship with U.S. Jews</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/12/at-israels-60th-a-evolving-relationship-with-us-jews/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/12/at-israels-60th-a-evolving-relationship-with-us-jews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Jewish support for Israel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Is the American Jewish connection with Israel slowly weakening, particularly among the young?

	This has been a common conclusion from academics and pollsters in recent years.

	As Israel reaches its 60th birthday, The Washington Post looks at the &#8220;evolving&#8221; relationship between American Jews and Israel.

	&#8220;My guess is we&#8217;re seeing a tightening of the core, the core being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Adventure Rabbi&#8217; returning to her suburban roots</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/09/adventure-rabbi-returning-to-her-suburban-roots/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/09/adventure-rabbi-returning-to-her-suburban-roots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[God in the Wilderness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Jamie Korngold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Rabbi Jamie Korngold, who graduated from Edgemont High School in 1983, is these days known as the&#8230;Adventure Rabbi.

	Korngold, a Reform rabbi, now lives in Boulder, Colo., where she started the &#8220;Synagogue Without Walls&#8221; program in 2001. Among other things, she officiates at &#8220;wilderness weddings, backcountry b&#8217;nai mitzvah&#8221; and other life cycle events.

	He new book is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seminary grounds now quiet and still</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/09/seminary-grounds-now-quiet-and-still/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/09/seminary-grounds-now-quiet-and-still/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Father Luke Sweeney]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Papal visit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Papal visit to New York]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[St. Joseph's Seminary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Papal youth rally]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	I returned to St. Joseph&#8217;s Seminary in Yonkers the other day, where it was beyond quiet.

	I was standing on the fields behind the seminary, where the papal youth rally took place on April 19.  It was empty, just grass and dirt. I actually had trouble getting my bearings: Where had the stage been? Where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8216;Michelangelo Code?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/09/a-michelangelo-code/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/09/a-michelangelo-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA["The Sistine Secrets"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Benjamin Blech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Jewish Week]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	I haven&#8217;t seen it, but it sounds like a new book, &#8220;The Sistine Secrets,&#8221; is aiming to be a Da Vinci Code II.

	But the fact that it was co-written by an Orthodox rabbi is not going to go over well with a lot of people.

	The book apparently contends that Michelangelo included secret Jewish codes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New chapel dedicated at Dobbs Ferry RTC</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/08/new-chapel-dedicated-at-dobbs-ferry-rtc/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/08/new-chapel-dedicated-at-dobbs-ferry-rtc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[St. Christopher's RTC in Dobbs Ferry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Introducing the new non-denominational chapel at the St. Christopher&#8217;s residential treatment center in Dobbs Ferry, which serves troubled youngsters&#8230;

	That&#8217;s Robert Maher, executive director of St. Christopher&#8217;s, addressing guests at a dedication last week.

	


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		<title>Expired food for sale at Amish salvage stores</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/08/expired-food-for-sale-at-amish-salvage-stores/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/08/expired-food-for-sale-at-amish-salvage-stores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Amish salvage stores]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Amish]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Maybe it&#8217;s me, but I was unaware that the Amish run a string of &#8220;salvage stores&#8221; that sell expired food and other items to the down-out-out.

	Business is up as the economy goes south.

	The picture, by the AP&#8217;s Jamie-Andrea Yanak, is of one such store in Mesopatmia, Ohio. (The lamp is gas-powered, as the Amish don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretend &#8216;mosque&#8217; in Illinois used for emergency drill</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/08/pretend-mosque-in-illinois-used-for-emergency-drill/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/08/pretend-mosque-in-illinois-used-for-emergency-drill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslims]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ahmed Rehab]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Emergency drill on fake mosque]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Council on American-Islamic Relations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Muslim advocacy groups are not that happy that an emergency preparedness drill in Irving, Ill., targeted a pretend mosque.

	A community facility was renamed &#8220;Irving mosque&#8221; for the day.

	According to the local paper, the pretend mosque was supposed to be &#8220;the home-base for a radical, heavily armed group with suspected terrorist ties.&#8221;

	There were &#8220;explosions&#8221; and &#8220;casualties,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papal visit was good PR</title>
		<link>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/07/papal-visit-was-good-pr/</link>
		<comments>http://religion.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/07/papal-visit-was-good-pr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Papal visit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pope]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pew Forum on Religion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Papal visit to New York]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Not surprisingly, Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s visit helped his image in the U.S.

	The Pew Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life did polls before and after the visit. Here are their results (from their website):

	

	B16 got mixed reviews on how he addressed the sex-abuse crisis:

	


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