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	<title>GetReligion</title>
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	<description>"The press . . . just doesn't get religion." -- William Schneider</description>
	<dc:date>2008-09-08T00:55:52Z</dc:date>
	
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		<title>NY Times discovers power of prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3897</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3897#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-07T19:41:16Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mollie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Godbeat</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Creeping Fundamentalism</category>
	<category>People</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Worship</category>
	<category>Voting</category>
	<category>Jeremiah Wright</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hold on to your hats, folks. We&#8217;re in for a wild ride. Or, rather, we&#8217;re continuing the wild ride of Gov.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tempting truth about Palin, evangelicals</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3894</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3894#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-07T16:25:00Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stricherz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Amy Sullivan of Time wrote  an uncharacteristically unsubstantiated story about Sarah Palin&#8217;s possible difficulty in attracting support from moderate and young evangelicals. Usually, Sullivan&#8217;s stories are marked by thorough and insightful reporting. This was not one of them.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>LOL! LA Times religion? (part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3893</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3893#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-07T02:55:26Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Pop Culture</category>
	<category>Humor</category>
	<category>Economy</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3893</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember that strange item the other day when the computer at the Los Angeles Times, for some reason, decided that a story on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and some &#8220;earmarks&#8221; bills should be listed at the newspaper&#8217;s &#8220;religion&#8221; site? Apparently, anything linked to Palin is &#8220;religious&#8221; at the moment.
Well, here we go again! Once again, at the &#8220;religion&#8221; news site the all-powerful computer has given us:
How to spot counterfeit True Religion jeans
Want to know if your new dungarees are truly True Religion? Here are some tips to help you separate the bona fide jeans from the fakes:
* True Religion sews a security tag featuring a red &#8220;U&#8221; beneath the inside labels of its jeans and T-shirts.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>McCain talks God; few notice (updated)</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3895</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3895#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-06T21:23:00Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>dpulliam</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Mainline</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3895</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Mark Silk&#8217;s Spiritual Politics blog notes that 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain&#8217;s speech Thursday night used the word &#8220;God&#8221; as much as Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden in his acceptance speech. Mark notes that the two &#8220;candidates [Obama and Palin] most identified with religion mentioned God least.&#8221; 
On the flip side of that comment, the two candidates least identified with religion mentioned God the most.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Analyzing those Obamagelicals</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3890</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3890#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-06T16:07:52Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mollie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>People</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Voting</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3890</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[So what are evangelical voters up to this year? For a while now, we&#8217;ve been told that evangelical voters are up for grabs. 
But Pew data hasn&#8217;t shown a shift of white evangelicals toward Democratic candidates. Comparing data from four and eight years ago, Obama is faring no better than Democratic nominees from years past.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>On the count of three &#8212; pray (again)</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3887</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3887#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-06T02:10:43Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>People</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>First Person</category>
	<category>Worship</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3887</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[


I recently wrote a GetReligion post about the Rev. Joel Hunter&#8217;s closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention, the prayer that ended with that &#8220;On the count of three&#8221; pray your own prayer interfaith twist.
Well, the more I read about that prayer and one or two others in the DNC convention, the more I thought about some previous public prayers that raised some similar issues.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Define Catholic social teaching (please)</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3889</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3889#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-06T00:11:15Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stricherz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Catholicism</category>
	<category>Voting</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3889</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Give credit to Eric Gorski of the Associated Press. While some reporters don&#8217;t get that Catholic prelates are supposed to be able to influence the lives of those in the pews, including their votes at the ballot box, Gorski understands that they can and do. 
Consider this passage from his latest story, about the McCain and Obama campaigns&#8217; outreach to Catholic voters:
One unknown in the race: the voice of U.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Exploring Christian pews in the middle</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3864</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3864#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-05T13:10:00Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Creeping Fundamentalism</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>First Person</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3864</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[I realize that some of the following information is old news, yet I continue to hear comments from GetReligion readers and friends (and friends who are readers) about the fact that the press isn&#8217;t covering the religious left enough. 
This is a point this blog has been making from Day One and, for sure, after the rise of Sen. Barack Obama.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>WSJ takes on Palin&#8217;s faith</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3884</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3884#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-05T13:01:53Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>dpulliam</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>People</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3884</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[

The Wall Street Journal took on the challenging task Thursday of reporting on and explaining the faith of 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin and how it might impact her public policy views. Needless to say, despite the Journal&#8217;s good efforts, more journalistic work remains to be done.
The article starts out with a short description of Palin&#8217;s place of worship for more than twenty years:
At the Pentecostal church where Alaska Gov.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Splitting hairs over sexism</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3883</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3883#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-05T01:34:35Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Creeping Fundamentalism</category>
	<category>People</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Voting</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3883</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, I knew that this was coming. Yet part of me really didn&#8217;t want to admit that I knew it was coming.
Care of the Boston Herald:
Yes, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has a lot on her plate: a pregnant teen daughter, a son on his way to Iraq, an infant with Down syndrome and a looming national election.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Not fully fleshing out death</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3882</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3882#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-04T22:03:20Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stricherz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3882</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. 
I dislike criticizing newspapers stories that are well reported, not to mention detailed and interesting.  
As a former daily reporter, I know the difficulty of finding a story and sources, getting time from your editor to report the story out, and confirming details while you&#8217;re writing.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Religious outreach, DNC style</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3860</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3860#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-04T18:32:29Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mollie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Godbeat</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Books</category>
	<category>Catholicism</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Worship</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3860</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;m here in St. Paul, and still processing everything from last night. I was pretty sure there was no way that the Republican National Convention could come even close to the excitement of the Democratic National Convention but last night was truly amazing.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Amish church growth (think children)</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3858</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3858#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-04T14:03:48Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>dpulliam</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>People</category>
	<category>World Religions</category>
	<category>Economy</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3858</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I wrote about an increase in coverage of the &#8220;diverse Amish&#8221; lifestyles and found it curious that there had been a great deal of minor news articles on various legal conflicts the communities were having with the governments around them. An answer to my curiosity arrived in the form of an Associated Press article on the fact that the Amish have nearly doubled their population in about 16 years.
The article bases a lot of its facts on an upcoming book by a leading Amish expert from Elizabethtown College Professor Donald Kraybill.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>AP strangeness: Advice for Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3881</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3881#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-03T19:45:14Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journalism</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3881</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[I tried, really tried, not to add another post to the Sarah Palin parade today. Then the Divine Ms. MZ Hemingway found this piece of strangeness.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Palin coverage in the heartland</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3866</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3866#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-09-03T04:16:51Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>dpulliam</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Sex</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3866</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Out in the heartland, much of the news coverage of Republican presidential candidate John McCain&#8217;s running mate Sarah Palin has focused on how she has thrilled evangelical voters. 
In other words &#8212; surprise, surprise &#8212; the focus is on the horse race and not on the substance. Since the pick was announced, there has been some coverage of the substance of Palin&#8217;s beliefs and career, but a lot of it still focuses on the process that was involved in selecting Palin.]]></content:encoded>
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