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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; poverty</title>
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	<description>looking at the world through the eyes of faith in Jesus</description>
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		<title>peace on earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Simons lives in Galati, Romania, a field worker with Word Made Flesh, an Christian organization committed to &#8220;serving Jesus among the poorest of the poor.&#8221; She works with Galati&#8217;s street children, providing them educational and recreational and spiritual programs, and interacting with them on a daily basis in their own context on the streets. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the great moral issues of our time</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/13/the-great-moral-issues-of-our-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I quote below a portion of Jim Wallis&#8217; response to James Dobson&#8217;s characterization of the &#8220;great moral issues of our time.&#8221; Dobson coauthored a letter to the National Association of Evangelicals objecting to their inclusion of climate change among the issues they have chosen to address as leaders of the evangelical Christian movement. Dobson named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>nobel peace prize for micro-credit pioneer</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/13/nobel-peace-prize-for-micro-credit-pioneer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Times calls it a truly inspiring choice. This year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus, a citizen of Bangladesh and a man with a dream to bring an end to poverty. His strategy has been to make small loans to people with little income, women in particular, people ineligible for conventional loans. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a test of national character</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/10/14/a-test-of-national-character/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our initial response to the victims of hurricane Katrina was a test of our national character, a test we largely failed. Since then, government agencies and especially non-governmental agencies and groups and single individuals have distinguished themselves by acts of genuine compassion and timely help to dislocated families. But there is much, much yet to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a &#8220;natural&#8221; disaster?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/09/08/a-natural-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/09/08/a-natural-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Among the letters read on air today during NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition program was a letter from an Arizona correspondent objecting to an NPR story that cited the disproportional effects of hurricane Katrina on people of color and people of low income. He wrote: New Orleans is a sandcastle built at low tide &#8230; The storm [...]]]></description>
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