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		<title>…Yay?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/05/02/%e2%80%a6yay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 16:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m the militaristic of the two of us here at MoF, but I find myself ambivalent at the recent news that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed by US forces (a week ago, whereupon they &#8220;took custody&#8221; of his body to make sure it was him). I have been told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Things Barack Obama has Done to Make the World a More Peaceful Place.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/10/09/eight-things-barack-obama-has-done-to-make-the-world-a-more-peaceful-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/10/09/eight-things-barack-obama-has-done-to-make-the-world-a-more-peaceful-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a refrain I encountered over and over across the Internet and in the media today: it says that President Obama has offered nothing more than speeches and vision in the cause of peace. Now, I&#8217;m not arguing that he has done enough to merit the Nobel Peace Prize, but his administration has *taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize: He almost deserves it.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/10/09/wow-obama-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/10/09/wow-obama-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wow!&#8221; was my initial, unbridled reaction when I read about the Nobel committee&#8217;s selection of President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize. I was in bed, reading the news on my iPhone, and leapt out to share it with the kids. Before I could say anything, I was greeted with, &#8220;Yeah, Dad, Obama won the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Gay Legal Rights Upheld</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/13/spark-gay-legal-rights-upheld/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/13/spark-gay-legal-rights-upheld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nationwide, Christians who refuse to provide services on the basis of gender orientation are losing legal battles.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and […] values&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/09/a-nation-of-citizens-who-are-bound-by-ideals-and-%e2%80%a6-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/09/a-nation-of-citizens-who-are-bound-by-ideals-and-%e2%80%a6-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how our president defined our country yesterday. Explicitly denying that it was a &#8220;Christian nation&#8221; and explicitly stating that this fact is one of our &#8220;great strengths&#8221;. It&#8217;s nice to be reminded of this—and by someone so high in the administration! It is vogue for politicians to exclaim &#8220;God bless America!&#8221; Whether or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG, go watch Kings, now.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/07/omg-go-watch-kings-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/07/omg-go-watch-kings-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s got it all: atheism, spirituality, god, scifi, and good music!! Hulu&#8217;s got the first four eps up right now (and it doesn&#8217;t keep them forever), so go catch up. It&#8217;s too smart and too well written to stay on the air for long. It&#8217;s the story of Kings David and Saul transposed into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: an Interesting Discussion of Gender Roles</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/30/spark-gender-roles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/30/spark-gender-roles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gender roles see a &#8216;conflict&#8217; shift in work-life balance&#8221; at USAToday. Hat tip to @unapologeticfem (site) I&#8217;m not certain that anything in there is great news, but it does seem that there is some kind of cultural change at work, which is something.]]></description>
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		<title>Sparks: Facebook/Social Networking</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/26/sparks-facebooksocial-networking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/26/sparks-facebooksocial-networking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many reasons I don&#8217;t post with my IRL name here (I won&#8217;t say &#8220;real&#8221;, since xJane is just as real in many ways) is because I am attempting to manage my image. In our internet age, I still find it to be very important to not ruffle feathers in a public way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Vermont Approves Civil Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/24/spark-vermont-approves-civil-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/24/spark-vermont-approves-civil-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vermont Senate, finding (correctly) that Civil Unions for gay couples fall short of providing equal rights, voted overwhelmingly to approve Civil Marriage for gay couples. The matter still has to go before the Vermont House (and since I&#8217;m late to this, may already have gone), where it is expected to pass. The margin by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas &amp; England: Creationism &amp; Its Dangers</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/19/texas-england/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/19/texas-england/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Texas is reviewing its science standards, specifically with the desire to remove them altogether. Skepchick has a great discussion of exactly what this means, but here&#8217;s the short version: Texas and California&#8217;s choices for scientific textbooks drives the availability of textbooks nationwide because of their massive marketshare the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE) has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Survey says&#8230;In the US, Organized Religion Losing to Freelancers.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/10/spark-survey-saysin-the-us-organized-religion-losing-to-freelancers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/10/spark-survey-saysin-the-us-organized-religion-losing-to-freelancers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/10/spark-survey-saysin-the-us-organized-religion-losing-to-freelancers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According this US News and World Report article, one of the biggest finds from the new American Religious Identification Survey is rise of the &#8220;nones&#8221; and the bleeding of traditional institutions&#8217; membership. More people are choosing to call themselves non-denominational, spiritual, or not religious at all. In terms of percentage of population, the biggest gains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Lent09</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I told a professor here (who was running a forum on the Question of God) that my religious background is ex-Catholic but that I am an active blogger in the ex-Mormon part of the Bloggernacle; that my husband is humanist, my father-in-law is Buddhist, and my mother-in-law is First Nations/Pagan. I got an awesome look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Pre-Celebrate Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/12/spark-pre-celebrate-valentines-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/12/spark-pre-celebrate-valentines-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And watch this vid. An MoF favorite singer and an MoF favorite cause: Regina Spektor and No On H8. Do this before V day and enjoy your partnership on Valentine&#8217;s Day guilt-free (and full of hope). Let&#8217;s dedicate this Valentine&#8217;s Day to love.]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: the Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/22/spark-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/22/spark-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is absolutely priceless. A comic &#038; blog post about Cheney (who, incidentally, &#8220;is as ancient as he is evil and he is large amounts of both.&#8221;).]]></description>
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		<title>Blog for Choice 2009: My Top Pro-Choice Hopes</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/22/blog-for-choice-2009-my-top-pro-choice-hopes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Blog for Choice Day and I encourage everyone to visit the blogroll of bloggers taking part and to visit their blogs, if only for this one post. Also, feel free to revisit my posts from &#8217;07 and &#8217;08. This year&#8217;s topic is &#8220;What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparks: Recent Feminism of Interest</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/14/sparks-recent-feminism-of-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Doe is standing up to the social stigma attached to having been raped and the attendant indignities she discovered were involved in attempting to report it. In Japan. Although it is both a different culture and legal system, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any culture that deals with rape without social stigma or the indignities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Warren&#8217;s not just anti-gay</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/03/spark-warrens-not-just-anti-gay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But also anti-woman! A true uniter. See here for his creepy-ass discussion of why divorce is worse than your spouse abusing you (hint: because if you divorce, then God gets to abuse you! And whose abuse would you rather?) Ugh. via.]]></description>
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		<title>Mary in Catholicism: Close to my heart (Spark)</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/30/mary-in-catholicism-close-to-my-heart-spark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two recent news stories impressed upon me the fact that I will always be some kind of Catholic. Even if it&#8217;s ex-Catholic. My first step in rejecting religion was exploring my own. This started as what I later knew to be feminist critique of Catholicism. The more I learned, the more it seemed clear to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captain&#8217;s Blog, Stardate 3.14159265</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/21/captains-blog-stardate-314159265/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, Avery Brooks (who will forever be Cmdr. Sisko to me) did a truly awesome commercial for IBM, one that still prompts me to occasionally exclaim, &#8220;I was promised flying cars!&#8221; The point was that, when people look into the future, they see today&#8217;s technology modified for the future, not the invention of whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/27/thanksgiving-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is a religious holiday. When the pilgrims first gathered to give thanks that they made it through their first few months in a wild new world, they weren&#8217;t thanking the natives for helping them, they were thanking their god for making the natives to help them. As a harvest festival, it has its roots [...]]]></description>
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