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	<description>Alan Rudnick: Faith, Culture, and Christianity</description>
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		<title>Do you suffer from social media fatigue?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you killing yourself trying mange Facebook and Twitter while trying to figure out who won Dancing With The Stars last night? Or, feverishly Googling what the buzz is on America&#8217;s Got Talent? Or who is playing Rock the Bells? Do you suffer from social media fatigue? It&#8217;s not a medical condition but the general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two blogs, two different reactions on Dan Savage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how audience dictates the comment section of a blog and how each handle discourse. I posted my Dan Savage blog post on this blog and on my Times Union blog.  Interestingly, I posted my blog post on Facebook. On Facebook, the conversation was civil, exchanged differing views, offer opposing ideas, and generally mild. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-bullying advocate: &#8216;Ignore the bullsh*t in the Bible&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-bullying advocate Dan Savage recently told a gathering of 1,800 high school students to &#8220;ignore the bullshit in the Bible&#8221;. Savage is a columnist and a speaker for the gay community. Savage&#8217;s comments came at a conference for students and his forum was about responding to cyber-bullying. His speech in context was as follows: People [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennials losing faith in record numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.alanrudnick.org/millennials-losing-faith-in-record-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Millennials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church Millennials]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This should not surprise us, but it should alarm us. Millennials, 18-24 year olds, are not only leaving churches in record numbers, but they are also losing their faith too. The Public Religion Research Institute and Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace &#38; World Affairs, just released a shocking study on these young people. Many Christians think young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Marc Summers Twitter incident</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[double dare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was waiting for my delayed USAirways flight last night from Philadelphia to Albany, NY and I turned to my phone for something to do. Since I have use a Blackberry, Words With Friends was out and so was FarmVille.  I thought about the last time I was at PHL. Last year, I saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The voice of the empty tomb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, many of us will connect with family and friends joining in the Easter celebration. Many traditions exist abound. Growing up in Maryland, our church always had an Easter egg hunt, as many churches do. Kids running around trying to gather as many eggs as possible. Parents watching as they wear their new Easter outfits. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we call today Maundy Thursday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holy Week]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Maundy Thursday — no, not Monday Thursday, which would be an interesting concept: society could work Monday through Thursday, with Fridays off!  Some Christians misunderstand that this day is only a “Catholic” celebration.   Christians both ancient and modern have remembered Christ’s last supper with his disciples on Maundy Thursday, which begins the great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsweek&#8217;s hipster Jesus article all hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do sell copies of a dying medium? Put a hipster looking Jesus on the cover. It&#8217;s kind of interesting&#8230; the whole, &#8220;What if God was a dude?&#8221; routine. Hipster, yeah, it has been done before and we get it. Not really surprising. What is more shocking is that Newsweek thinks Jesus is an Anglo-Saxon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four troubling facts in the Trayvon Martin case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the evolving case of the killing of Trayvon Martin, a teenager, by George Zimmerman reached a fever pitch. Outrage on the part of pro- Martin groups swirled in a mix of frustration, anger, and sadness over law enforcement&#8217;s decision not to bring Zimmerman to trial. Protests in Orlando and other cities and towns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church giving increases, but hurts Millennials</title>
		<link>http://www.alanrudnick.org/church-giving-increases-but-it-hurts-millennials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Churches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the economy rebounds it appears that contributions to churches are increasing as well.   According to 4th annual “State of the Plate” survey , 51% of churches last year saw an increase in giving, up from 43% in 2010 and 36% in 2009. That should make all churches rejoice. However, if you look deeper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why dystopia is in vogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dystopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend the movie &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; opened to millions of adoring fans. Over 35 million books have been sold in &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; series and the books currently sit atop of Amazon&#8217;s best seller list. It seems that our culture is shifting to an interest in dystopia.  Almost everyone I talk to who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tethered to Tech</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the first to admit a tethering to all things tech. Computers, my Blackberry, my Blackberry Playbook tablet, netbook, and the list goes on. I&#8217;ve even championed the cause of a &#8220;digital fast&#8221;. Celebrities are even caught with their fav device in hand. There is a great discussion happening this Wednesday in the Albany area that [...]]]></description>
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