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		<title>Change in My Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2013/09/change-in-my-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After more than five years writing my thoughts here, I am no longer keeping a blog at this website. To read 30+ of my more recent essays, visit my Author page on the Huffington Post website: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marilyn-sewell/ You can find &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2013/09/change-in-my-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saying Goodbye to Tolerance</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/11/saying-goodbye-to-tolerance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a Unitarian Universalist, and we consider ourselves the most tolerant of faiths.  In the 19th century Universalist churches were known for opening their doors to dissenters of all varieties, and our modern-day UU churches have continued to provide &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/11/saying-goodbye-to-tolerance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Sexuality of Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/10/the-sexuality-of-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karen L. King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, has caused quite an uproar with her discovery of a scrap of fourth-century papyrus that suggests Jesus may have been married. She is not the first to speculate about Jesus&#8217;s marital &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/10/the-sexuality-of-jesus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mortality and the Gift of Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/06/mortality-and-the-gift-of-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 04:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I was aware of was my husband George asking frantically, &#8220;Can you breathe? Can you breathe?&#8221; He had found me in our home unconscious, face down, in a pool of blood.  I was absolutely still, he said, &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/06/mortality-and-the-gift-of-perspective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rush Limbaugh and the Legacy of Margaret Sanger</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-and-the-legacy-of-margaret-sanger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For three days Rush Limbaugh verbally attacked a young Georgetown University law student who testified in support of the Obama administration&#8217;s requirement that health insurance plans cover contraceptives for women. Among other pejorative terms, Limbaugh called the young woman a &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-and-the-legacy-of-margaret-sanger/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering Regrets in the New Year</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/01/pondering_regrets_in_the_new_y/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not have many regrets in my life, at least in regard to the big decisions: getting married, getting unmarried, having children, attending various schools, working first as a teacher, then as a psychotherapist, and most recently as a &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2012/01/pondering_regrets_in_the_new_y/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interviewing Portland Mayoral Candidates</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/12/interviewing_portland_mayoral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am interviewing all Portland mayoral candidates in regard to their history and the development of their values. I&#8217;m asking questions like, &#8220;Can you remember a teacher who influenced you in some important way?&#8221; &#8220;If you could meet anyone in &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/12/interviewing_portland_mayoral/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Raw Faith&#8221; Available During the Holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/12/raw_faith_available_during_the/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kino Lorber, the distributor for our film &#8220;Raw Faith,&#8221; is making the film available online, plus the DVD, during the holiday period. Find out details: alivemindcinema.com/rawfaith.]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement of My Radio Show</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/10/announcement_of_my_radio_show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to announce that I&#8217;m now doing an on-line radio show: &#8220;Raw Faith Radio,&#8221; concerning matters of the spirit. The broadcast is Fridays at 9:00 AM and again at noon, but all the past shows on there and available &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/10/announcement_of_my_radio_show/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Higher Ground&#8221;: a Film Portraying Fundamentalism</title>
		<link>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/09/higher_ground_a_film_portrayin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/09/higher_ground_a_film_portrayin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marilyn Sewell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vera Farmiga, in her directorial debut &#8220;Higher Ground&#8221; about a woman who has fallen in with a group of Christian fundamentalists, gets all of it right: the language, the baptismal rites, the Christian &#8220;marriage counselor,&#8221; the attractive patriarchal pastor. I &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/09/higher_ground_a_film_portrayin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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