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	<title>The Wheat and the Chaff</title>
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		<title>Guest Writer Tom Helling on Rev. Dr. Ledyard S. Baxter: A Lifetime Commitment to Fairness and Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a cold, windy and overcast February day, and my destination is the Old Steeple Church in Aquebogue, NY, approximately 100 miles due east of New York City. I am traveling to speak with the pastor Reverend Dr. Ledyard S. Baxter, 65, or Rev Led as his current congregation named him six years ago. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2011/05/11/guest-writer-tom-helling-on-rev-dr-ledyard-s-baxter-a-lifetime-commitment-to-fairness-and-truth/</link>
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		<title>The Puzzling Concept of Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from Radical Religion. &#8220;Justice language&#8221; is, in my experience, the greatest stumbling block in an otherwise rich and productive dialogue between socially-engaged Christians and Buddhists. It should not be so, but last night&#8217;s Presidential announcement of the death of Osama Bin Laden shows us precisely why this stumbling block exists. Last night, Obama announced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2011/05/02/the-puzzling-concept-of-justice/</link>
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		<title>Quest of the Historical Malcolm X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from my newly-formed and post-Union blog Radical Religion. Irene Monroe has a good take on Manning Marable&#8217;s new biography of Malcolm X up at her Huffington Post blog. I will leave her comments for you to read, but please do. She is an excellent writer with a much-needed perspective on race and sexuality in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2011/04/18/quest-of-the-historical-malcolm-x/</link>
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		<title>Guest Writer Pia Chaudhari: Remedying a Poverty of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine shared this extraordinary video on Facebook  recently, about a man in India, Narayanan Krishnan, who has followed his heart into a ministry of feeding and care-taking of some of the most desperately poor and vulnerable people in his home city. For me, watching it brought a host of emotions. It brought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2011/02/22/guest-writer-pia-chaudha-remedying-a-poverty-of-love/</link>
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		<title>Bishop Senyonjo&#8217;s Courage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick heads-up that Religion Dispatches has an article on Union alum Bishop Christopher Senyonjo currently running on their site. For those who do not know, the Bishop has been the sole voice of religious support for the LGBTQ citizens of Uganda. He has been doing a great service both in Uganda and in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2011/02/13/bishop-senyonjo/</link>
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		<title>The Revolution Has Been Televised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to the old saying, the Revolution has indeed been televised. Al Jazeera, despite Mubarak&#8217;s shut-down of both new and old media, has carried live coverage of a peaceful revolution in Egypt. This is a great day. Twenty-one years ago today, Nelson Mandela was freed from Victor Verser Prison: this too was televised. The media [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2011/02/11/the-revolution-has-been-televised/</link>
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		<title>Wearing Christ On Your Sleeve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much seriousness is traipsing the front pages of newspapers and our minds these days: floods, food shortages and price hikes, and political-social unrest in Egypt and bordering states. It&#8217;s right that our hearts and minds focus on these heavy matters. But it really leaves little time for the less consequential to inhabit our thoughts. That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2011/02/09/wearing-christ-on-your-sleeve/</link>
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		<title>Let My People Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are so accustomed in the Abrahamic tradition to see Egypt as the oppressor to be overthrown. It is a central part of the Exodus narrative, which has been crucial in Jewish history as well as African-American Christian identity. So what happens when Egypt itself yearns for freedom? That is precisely what we are seeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2011/02/02/let-my-people-go/</link>
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		<title>W&amp;C finds Religion in the News&#8230; no really.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This seminarian is no different from anyone else. These have been disturbing, nonsensical days that I can hardly begin to make meaning of one way or the other. When I don&#8217;t understand&#8211;especially when phrases from the middle ages pop up in present political rhetoric&#8211;I look to the wiser ones that have gone before me. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2011/01/13/wc-finds-religion-in-the-news-no-really/</link>
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		<title>Remembering What We Already Knew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of meeting Paul Wallace at the Religion Dispatches reception at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Atlanta. He&#8217;s a lovely man and his wife is equally charming as he. I sincerely recommend his writings at RD to anyone interested in the science-religion dialogue. His most recent piece deals with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/wheatandthechaff/2010/11/05/remembering-what-we-already-knew/</link>
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