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		<title>Was Christopher Hitchens Religious?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than a year before his death, I interviewed Christopher Hitchens for Portland Monthly magazine. I didn&#8217;t want to do the interview. As I told editor Randy Gragg, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like Christopher Hitchens. He is rude. He is a bully. &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/12/was_christopher_hitchens_relig/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Singing the Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister Donna and I recently took a self-guided blues tour of the Mississippi Delta. It was an extraordinary experience. I grew up in the South, but it never visited the Delta, the emotional heart of the blues. The area &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/10/singing_the_blues/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Churches Prefer Charity to Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a young adult in New Orleans, I attended a prestigious church which fronted on elegant St. Charles Avenue. One Sunday there was a call from the pulpit for used shoes to be donated to the forgotten souls &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/08/churches_prefer_charity_to_jus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiveness and the Law of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate truth that happiness and good fortune rarely deepen us spiritually. It is when we run into unbearable grief and loss we are unprepared for that we are stripped of our vanity and our pride and begin &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/07/forgiveness-and-the-law-of-love/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Does &#8216;God&#8217; Mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When did you give up God? Or did you? I started doubting at an early age. My problem is that I never seemed able to access this God of love and mercy that the minister talked about. In the pain &#8230; <a href="http://www.marilynsewell.com/2011/06/what_does_god_mean/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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