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		<title>Can Jesus and Santa get along?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I participated in a Christmas ritual that many parents struggle with: a visit with Santa Claus. Why the struggle? For some parents, Christmas and Santa Claus go together like white and red striping on candy canes. You cannot separate the two. Santa is everywhere and just about every culture. For others, Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas: Peace In the Midst of Chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melissa was enjoying dinner with her husband and their three children at a restaurant recently—until the waiter disappeared for 20 minutes. Her husband, Tim, began muttering. Melissa braced herself. &#8220;Uh-oh, here it comes,&#8221; she remembers thinking. &#8220;EXCUSE ME!&#8221; he screamed across the room to another waiter, then stormed off to complain to the manager. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breakup Stats on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is a treasure trove of information &#8211; including when relationships end.  A recent New York Times article tracked what break ups occur based on Facebook user information: In a recent TED Talk discussing the project, Mr. McCandless explained that most breakups occur three times in the year — in the weeks leading up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Reasons Why Christians Should Celebrate Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is celebrating a holiday that honors ghouls, demons, ghosts, and everything that goes bump in the night dangerous or even evil? Somewhere, in the halls of history, Halloween or All Hallows Eve, got hijacked.  What started as a day to prepare for All Saints’ Day (November 1st), Halloween became a spooky, evil, and candy filled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary&#039;s Baby Bump: A Divine Scandal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much is made about Jesus&#8217; birth in the Christmas story, but often preachers do not comment on Mary&#8217;s &#8220;situation&#8221;: an unwed mother who is pregnant.  Culturally, this would have been disastrous. Mary, most likely just a teenager, is visited by the angel Gabriel to bring Good News: she is to give birth to the Anointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#039;Big Daddy&#039; of Patience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academy Award-winning American actor, writer and folk music singer Burl Ives was made famous by playing the role of &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; in the play turned movie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Big Daddy is portrayed as an impatient, selfish, and harsh father to his son Brick, played by Paul Newman.  Big Daddy epitomizes impatience: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#039;s Black Friday! But, Christmas is Coming!</title>
		<link>http://www.alanrudnick.org/2009/11/waiting-for-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Rudnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, today is Black Friday!  The craziest shopping day of the year!  Did you go and brave the crowds for all those insane deals?  I could never get up at 4 a.m. and wait in line just to get a better price on a Christmas gift.  Just of thought of the crowds, the lack of [...]]]></description>
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