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	<description>An idea lab about life, culture and faith</description>
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		<title>Speaking of China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How about starting a re-education program about China? See this from Slate about two seventy year old women scheduled to go to work camps for requesting a protest permit too many times.

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		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-08-22T17:48:05Z</link>
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		<title>Boycotting the Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why the world has chosen to reward China with the international attention of the Olympics is one of the outrages of the year. This is the first time an authoritarian government has hosted the games.  While the Chinese government is guilty of systematic human rights violations including religious oppression, mandatory abortions, economic rape of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-08-07T16:04:40Z</link>
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		<title>Lost feminism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cultural critic Camille Paglia offers an insightful and challenging appraisal of the current state of affairs within feminism. Read her lecture here published in Arion. She asks some important questions:
&#8220;What precisely is feminism? Is it a theory, an ideology, or a praxis (that is, a program for action)? Is feminism perhaps so Western in its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-08-07T11:12:00Z</link>
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		<title>The importance of girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jennifer Goodson alerted me to this site. I think it&#8217;s a powerful illustration of the interdependence of all people and why 600 million girls matter.




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		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-07-29T07:23:37Z</link>
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		<title>The doctor is busy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story from the New York Times discusses how dermatologists are increasingly more interested in their Botox clients than patients with real skin diseases. With a world health crisis and many here at home with no health insurance, it&#8217;s decadent for physicians to devote themselves to people&#8217;s vanity instead of real suffering. But I guess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-07-28T15:02:36Z</link>
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		<title>The ethics of consumption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently reading Being Consumed:Economics and Christian Desire by William T. Cavanaugh. The author provides a theological and cultural analysis of our consumer society. He presents consumerism not as materialism, but as spirituality gone wrong. Consumerism has many of the elements associated with spirituality: the search for transcendence, detachment, community, and human solidarity. Cavanaugh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-07-26T15:19:57Z</link>
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		<title>Here come the bridesmaids</title>
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		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-07-24T17:32:10Z</link>
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		<title>Dangerous motherhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read this story in The New York Times by medical missionary Sue Makin. This is one story, among many, that highlights the sad fact that childbirth is still a dangerous process for many women in the world.

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		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-07-16T07:04:34Z</link>
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		<title>Is biology destiny?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See this video  at Salon.com about sex difference research. The question yet to be answered is how does learned behavior change our brain?

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		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-07-02T14:14:29Z</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been blogging lately because frankly the media noise has been so loud that it&#8217;s hard to figure out what&#8217;s important and what&#8217;s just noise. Well, I think this is important.  After years in office this is the strongest statement by US Secretary of State Rice regarding violence against women worldwide. Here is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-06-26T15:18:58Z</link>
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