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							<title><![CDATA[It's Getting Harder to Talk About God]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/talk-god-sprituality-christian.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Merritt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The decline in our spiritual vocabulary has many real-world consequences.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Faith of Charles Schulz Shaped Snoopy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/the-spirituality-of-snoopy/479664/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Merritt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Charles Schulz was widely applauded for a long list of achievements. The creator of the Peanuts comic strip was a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and his comics earned him an Emmy, Peabody, and Congressional Gold Medal. Sixteen years after his death in 2000, Schulz is still the third top-earning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Death of Moral Relativism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-death-of-moral-relativism/475221/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Merritt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four years before he was hoisted to Speaker of the House, a smooth-faced Representative Paul Ryan declared, &ldquo;If you ask me what the biggest problem in America is, I&rsquo;m not going to tell you debt, deficits, statistics, economics&mdash;I&rsquo;ll tell you it&rsquo;s moral...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Religious Right Give Ted Cruz the Win?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/can-the-religious-right-give-ted-cruz-the-win/421563/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Merritt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In August 1980, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan stood before a crowd of 15,000 evangelicals in Dallas, Texas, and declared: &ldquo;I know you can&rsquo;t endorse me. But...I want you to know that I endorse you.&rdquo; Shortly thereafter, various leaders of what would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of Evangelical Dominance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/election-2012-marks-the-end-of-evangelical-dominance-in-politics/265139/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Merritt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Merritt			
			 -  Jonathan Merritt is author of A Faith of Our Own: Following Jesus Beyond the Culture Wars (2012). He's published more than 300 columns in outlets such as USA Today, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and...]]></description>
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