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				<title>Patriotism: liberty and justice for all</title>				
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				Photo by ManseeThis week we celebrate the birth of a nation. A nation founded not on religion but on religious freedom. As we celebrate, let&apos;s all remember that we are called to be a unified nation, not only as states but as individuals. All races, a...
				
				
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				<title>Living your faith in an interfaith world: the other</title>				
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				 Aline DasselEven those who say they have no faith, believe in something. It might be nature, or science, or the big three of Philosophy 101: The Good, The True, and The Beautiful. No matter what beliefs we profess, we have to learn to live in a worl...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:12:52 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Interfaith Worship: Letting the Particulars Shine Through</title>				
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				Many years ago, when Oregon was fighting one of many ballot measures to limit the rights of gay and lesbian citizens, I was a member of a group called People of Faith Against Bigotry. Originally founded by a group of peace and justice Catholics, they...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:17:30 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>American Christianity&apos;s need for forgiveness</title>				
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				Christianity in the United States has much to atone for. I say this as a Christian, and I mean it. Our Founding Fathers (see previous post) deliberately founded a country on an ethic of religious freedom and acceptance of others&apos; beliefs. We&apos;ve moved...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 23:21:51 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Faith of the Founding Fathers</title>				
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				If you don&apos;t know it already, America is not a Christian country. Not by design, not by affiliation, and certainly not by our actions towards those of other faiths. If you actually read the founding fathers, you will discover their ideas were counter...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 22:11:36 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Faith in the midst of recession: Not a time to give up</title>				
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				 &amp;copy; Photowitch | Dreamstime.com It&apos;s been a hard year, hasn&apos;t it? Standing by as jobs are lost, watching retirement grow further away as our pensions sink into the red, struggling to find our way through dire reports, and wondering what&apos;s coming ...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:51:35 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Interfaith spirituality just makes sense in a post-modern world</title>				
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				&amp;copy; Marcos2006 | Dreamstime.com  For some years now I have joked that I am a JuBuEpiscoPagaTarianUniversalist. (Try saying that three times fast.) I&apos;m actually an oxymoron of sorts: a Unitarian Universalist Christian. But I like the looks I get wh...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 18:03:50 -0700</pubDate>
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