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		<title>Difference or Disrespect?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate politics. It’s not that I don’t care. I care deeply and I believe honest, moral people can disagree about issues. What I hate about politics is that neither side can manage to disagree without character assassination. And, if I’m candid, the people who have disappointed me most in this are Christians. Christians on [...]
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		<title>Election Day and Good Sportsmanship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been eager for this election season to end. For several reasons, I&#8217;ve found it depressing. I&#8217;m not excited about either candidate. I&#8217;ve never fallen squarely into either Democrat or Republican molds. I don&#8217;t like McCain or Obama. I&#8217;m voting for the candidate I deem to be the lesser of two evils. I hate that. [...]
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		<title>Focus on the Family&#8217;s Response</title>
		<link>http://bethgsanders.com/citizenlink-a-message-from-jim-daly-focus-action-president-and-ceo</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I wrote about the Values Voters Conference, where a racially-offensive product was sold. Focus on the Family was a major sponsor of this event and I expressed to them my outrage at their participation. I just received the following response from them: Dear Beth: Thank you for contacting Focus on the Family. Although we [...]
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		<title>Religion and Politics (Sorry, No Sex)</title>
		<link>http://bethgsanders.com/religion-and-politics-sorry-no-sex</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Ortberg, senior minister at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, pretty much sums up my feelings about politics and church. &#8230; politics is an important sphere of human activity, and as such God is keenly interested in it. It was the Dutch theologian and politician (why don&#8217;t we have more of those in America?) Abraham Kuyper [...]
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		<title>Update on my Focus on the Family Letter</title>
		<link>http://bethgsanders.com/update-on-my-focus-on-the-family-letter</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently they have quite a backlog of emails to answer. Hmmm. I can&#8217;t help but wonder if there are other emails about the same issue as mine &#8230; Related posts: Focus on the Family&#8217;s Response Family Values? Not Mine. Right, True, Faithful and Generous
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		<title>Family Values? Not Mine.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am nauseated. I may never be able to eat another waffle again. Apparently, the Values Voter Summit (a right-wing conservative &#8220;family values&#8221; organization) thinks an &#8220;Aunt Jemima&#8221; parody is a humorous way to depict Barack Obama on a fake waffle box. You&#8217;ve probably seen it. I won&#8217;t link to it, or the Values Voter [...]
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		<title>Thank You Donald Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. And I don&#8217;t think Jesus would be either. Last night, author Donald Miller gave this benediction at the Democratic National Convention. It moved me so I&#8217;m sharing it here. It moved me because these are the kinds of things I wish Christians were known for [...]
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beth g sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate politics. I hate elections. Probably because I always feel forced into one of two molds, neither of which I fit: Democrat or Republican. Particularly in my conservative, Bible Belt area, there are many Christians who believe that the only way a Christian can vote is Republican. But I know many committed, devout Christians [...]
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