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		<title>November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leipzig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nonviolence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["If any event ever merited the description of miracle," says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, "a revolution that grew out of the church."]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>&quot;If any event ever merited the description of miracle,&quot; says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, &quot;a revolution that grew out of the church.&quot;</itunes:subtitle>
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		<title>November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred yi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leipzig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nonviolence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sermon on the Mount]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, a nonviolent movement emerged from the sanctuary of historic St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig. It was rooted, according to its pastor, in weekly prayers for peace and readings from the Sermon on the Mount that countered "the reality of political hopelessness."]]></description>
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		<title>November 6, 2009: Health Care and the Common Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred yi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Callahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taming the Beloved Beast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hastings Center bioethicist and philosopher Daniel Callahan says the common good as a moral value should be the foundation for American health care reform, but it has been largely absent from the current public debate.]]></description>
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		<title>November 6, 2009: The Aim of Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred yi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taming the Beloved Beast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read an excerpt from a new book on medical technology costs and our health care system by Daniel Callahan, who advocates "an open discussion on what counts as good or bad choices, wise or imprudent ones, and our social obligations to our community as we make them."]]></description>
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		<title>November 6, 2009: City Creek Center</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/november-6-2009/city-creek-center/4854/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/november-6-2009/city-creek-center/4854/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred yi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mormon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[city planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[City planner Stephen Goldsmith says this private development project of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints creates a "we-they" divide. Jason Mathis of Salt Lake City's Downtown Alliance says the church is creating "a community that is going to last for the next hundred years."]]></description>
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		<title>November 6, 2009: Healing the Wounds of War</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/november-6-2009/healing-the-wounds-of-war/4878/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/november-6-2009/healing-the-wounds-of-war/4878/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred yi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[veterans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revisit our November 2007 Web-only essay on dealing with the spiritual and moral pain of war. "My sense is that this is a fundamentally religious issue," says clinical psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, an expert on combat trauma. "It's possible to package it as a mental health issue, but I think we lose out."]]></description>
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		<title>US Muslims Condemn Fort Hood Shootings</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/headlines/us-muslims-condemn-fort-hood-shootings/4894/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/headlines/us-muslims-condemn-fort-hood-shootings/4894/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred yi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious leaders are calling for calm in the wake of the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas. The gunman was an American-born Muslim, an Army major, a psychiatrist who had complained about being harassed for his faith. Islamic leaders especially urged the public to refrain from judging all Muslims. The Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Marriage Votes Mixed in Maine, Washington</title>
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		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/headlines/gay-marriage-votes-mixed-in-maine-washington/4893/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred yi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative religious leaders have welcomed Election Day results in Maine, where gay marriage was rejected. Fifty-three percent of voters there repealed a law allowing same-sex marriage that had been approved by the legislature earlier this year. The Roman Catholic Church led the opposition to the law, and church officials said the referendum upheld “the true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Green Patriarch” Meets with Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred yi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Washington, DC, Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world’s 275 million Orthodox Christians, met with President Obama. The closed-door meeting focused on discussions of religious freedom and environmental stewardship. Bartholomew is known as the “Green Patriarch.” He spent much of his time in the US lobbying for stronger environmental policies. He told an audience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Religious Leaders Lobby for Climate Change Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred yi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Capitol Hill, faith leaders lobbied Congress to make climate change legislation a high priority. Church World Service organized the effort that asked legislators to agree to more pollution limits.
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