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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; justice</title>
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	<description>looking at the world through the eyes of faith in Jesus</description>
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		<title>sharing the wealth?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/11/12/sharing-the-wealth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fairness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good editorial in the latest issue of The Christian Century: American Pie In the course of discussing tax policy with an unlicensed Ohio plumber, Barack Obama suggested that &#8220;spreading the wealth around&#8221; a bit more would be good for the country. Obama was trying to explain why he wants to impose a modest tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>at our worst &#8230; and best</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/07/02/at-our-worst-and-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed federal lawsuits Monday alleging they were tortured by U.S. defense contractors while detained at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. The lawsuits allege that those arrested and taken to the prison were subjected to forced nudity, electrical shocks, mock executions and other inhumane treatment. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>shame on burger king!</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/12/17/shame-on-burger-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[burger-king]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition_of_immokalee_workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomato-pickers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a UCC Justice and Peace Action Network newsletter: You probably also know that after much work and a successful boycott, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) won an agreement with Taco Bell for improved pay, better working conditions, and greater dignity for tomato pickers. CIW also signed similar agreements with McDonalds, Pizza Hut, KFC, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the president we want &#8230; in a word</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/12/13/the-president-we-want-in-a-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/12/13/the-president-we-want-in-a-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidential_candidate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We hosted a pre-caucus house party this evening at our home during which I asked our guests to express what it is they are looking for in a presidential candidate in one word. Their answers make quite a list! integrity compassion inspiration honesty justice humility diplomacy reconciler character change moral I do hope and pray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>seeing gray</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/09/27/seeing-gray/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/09/27/seeing-gray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the natural world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sojourners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Sojouorners magazine (In the prison-industrial complex, is there hope for redemption?), Nancy Hastings Sehested, a Baptist minister and prison chaplain, describes a North Carolina maximum-security prison this way: Colorful flowers mark the path to the gatehouse. Then the stripping away begins in earnest. It is a gray day every day in this prison. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a prayer for good friday</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/06/a-prayer-for-good-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[children_of_god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confess]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jesus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[revenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lord Jesus, forgive us for all the ways we deny you &#8230; &#8230; by remaining quiet in the shadows, not daring to speak our faith in the public arena &#8230; by quietly going about our own business, while neglecting to wonder what your business might be &#8230; by being more American than Christian, more the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>secret proceedings</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/08/trials/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/08/trials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military_tribunals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rule_of_law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war-on-terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a March 8, 2007 article by Andrew Buncombe in The Independent: Campaigners have condemned the Bush administration&#8217;s plan to proceed with secret proceedings [Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT)] against 14 &#8220;high-value&#8221; terrorism suspects currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The suspects include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of organising the 11 September 2001 attacks. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>detainee bill passes senate</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/09/28/detainee-bill-passes-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/09/28/detainee-bill-passes-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Kerry (Democrat): This bill gives an administration that lobbied for torture exactly what it wanted. No, this administration did not lobby for torture. It lobbied for a free and unfettered hand in conducting its &#8220;war on terrorism&#8221; by whatever means it deems necessary and effective &#8230; which may include means that most people would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>with liberty and justice for all</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/06/07/with-liberty-and-justice-for-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/06/07/with-liberty-and-justice-for-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interrogation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2006: The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans &#8220;humiliating and degrading treatment,&#8221; according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift away from strict adherence to international human rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>william sloane coffin</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/04/13/william-sloane-coffin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/04/13/william-sloane-coffin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[follow_jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[william_sloane_coffin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. died yesterday. Rev. Coffin was university chaplain during my time at Yale, and many years later has won my admiration as a genuine person of faith and a powerful voice for truth and justice and peace &#8212; God&#8217;s truth, God&#8217;s justice, God&#8217;s peace. The stories told about him and [...]]]></description>
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