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		<title>The Hagia Sophia: Where Christianity and Islam Coexist &#8212; and Clash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 08:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Christian living in a mostly Christian country, I've never really known how it feels to have one's faith and its most cherished symbols obliterated by a colonizing force. Until I stepped inside the Hagia Sophia.

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		<title>GodsBigBlog: Take a Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mood for something beautiful? Take a virtual tour of the Vatican&#8217;s Sistine Chapel, complete with musical accompanyment. Hint: Click and move your mouse around the image, then click on the plus or minus signs to get close-ups of the various paintings. Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>Books Openers: Harvey Cox — You Don’t Have to Believe to Be a Christian</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'd like to recommend Harvey Cox's newest book to all my non-believer friends. So many of the sophisticated, highly educated people I know labor under the assumption that they have to believe - to assent intellectually to - the factuality of traditional Christian teaching. They don't. And here's why: The idea of a fixed creed to which a true Christian must subscribe dates back, not to the life of Jesus, but to the emperor Constantine.

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		<title>Book Openers: Simone Weil on Prayer &#8212; First, Pay Attention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simone Weil's Waiting for God is a dense, highly politicized book. But Weil's startling insights into the nature of God and God's relationship to humanity are truly worth stuggling through this imposing text.

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