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		<title>Patriarchy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every major religion &#8211; except perhaps Hinduism &#8211; started as a reformation of some previous tradition. Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i, Sikhism &#8211; all slashed away an accumulation of doctrine and dogma to reduce the distinctions between men and women, clerics and laity.]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/03/10/759/</link>
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		<title>Earthquakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once you grasp this process, you can see that earthquakes are inexorable. They have nothing to do with human misbehaviour. Continental plates do not care what human hitchhikers may be doing on their surface. So earthquakes cannot be punishment for anything]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/03/07/755/</link>
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		<title>Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I examined my own reactions, I started wondering why it's so hard for most of us &#8211; including me &#8211; to admit when we might have been wrong.]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/03/03/753/</link>
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		<title>Shining moments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I could be fourth-best in the world at anything, I'd consider that an incredible achievement. ]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/02/28/748/</link>
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		<title>Memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Heaven is God's memory. We are preserved in the memory of love that is big enough to contain all creation, for all time. No one is forgotten, because everyone is beloved.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/02/24/746/</link>
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		<title>No column</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday February 21, 2010
No column today
By Jim Taylor
Sorry, friends, I ran out of inspiration this week. Not even a few reviews of Sarah Palin&#8217;s book managed to raise my scorn level enough to get any creative juices flowing.
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Your Turn

But there were some letters in reaction to last week&#8217;s column, on the Winter Olympic Games, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/02/21/744/</link>
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		<title>Prisoners of our past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In short, we're brilliantly programmed to act on the risks that confronted us in the Pleistocene Age. We're less adept with 21st-century challenges.]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/02/17/742/</link>
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		<title>Olympic hype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Games remind me of Elvis Presley. as his fame grew, Elvis grew fat -- bloated on drugs and hero worship. He died in 1977, in Las Vegas, a sad caricature of the teen idol he had once been.]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/02/14/740/</link>
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		<title>Evil forces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I were to start with a clean slate and look for a religion that reflected the realities of life around me....]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/02/10/738/</link>
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		<title>Groundhogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But wouldn't you think that people could recognize that it's cold and clear without needing a groundhog to tell them?]]></description>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/02/07/736/</link>
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