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		<title>American Religion: A History in Pieces</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sharlet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve signed on to edit an anthology of literary journalism about American religion for a university press, called &#8212; for now, at least &#8212; &#8220;American Religion: A History in Pieces.&#8221; The time frame is 1860-now. The genre, in case you aren&#8217;t familiar with it, is narrative nonfiction writing that makes use of fictional techniques &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>According to Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sharlet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then a reader of my book, The Family, writes with an interesting lead: a Family connection I&#8217;d been unaware of, a theological perspective I hadn&#8217;t considered. And then there&#8217;s this. Someone called MA Jenkins responded to an interview I gave to Seattle&#8217;s KOMO 1000 with this video about the &#8220;greater threat&#8221; that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion, The Reality Show (A Dramatization)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last! The solution to the abortion debate: A reality show. &#8220;Bump+&#8221; follows three women with unintended pregnancies, who will, apparently, be guided in their choice about whether or not to have an abortion or a child, by viewer comments. &#8220;The final cliffhanger is so unpredictable,&#8221; says the press release from Yellow Line Studios, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evil Virgins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sharlet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Yorkers: I&#8217;m slated to talk with WNYC&#8217;s Leonard Lopate 1:20 pm Wednesday about Uganda&#8217;s gay death penalty bill. Then, the next night, I get to read St. Jerome&#8217;s letter on &#8220;evil virgins&#8221; in St. Paul&#8217;s Chapel to celebrate the new &#8220;Religion&#8221; issue of Lapham&#8217;s Quarterly. I&#8217;m hoping that in between I&#8217;ll get a chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vic Chesnutt, RIP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sharlet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vic Chesnutt, one of the great musical Buddha killers of our time, died of an overdose on Christmas day. Read Kristin Hersh&#8217;s eulogy. If you were a fan, chip in some money to help his cash-strapped family cover expenses. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Chesnutt&#8217;s remarkable songs, I want to say you should start with &#8220;In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Family and the &#8220;Heathen Chinese&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sharlet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at my personal blog, I&#8217;ve posted a link to religion blogger Richard Bartholomew&#8217;s post on the Taipei Prayer Breakfast and followed it up with some documents on the relationship between China and the Family from my archives. Since I know some KtB readers found us via The Family, I&#8217;m cross-posting it below. Be warned: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Family&#8217;s Dead Sea Scrolls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sharlet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at my personal blog, &#8220;Call Me Ishmael,&#8221; I&#8217;ve begun posting archival documents linked to my research for The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. I began with a 1980 letter from a Family associate to then Pennsylvania state legislator Joe Pitts pledging the support of the Family &#8212; aka the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Colson&#8217;s Heavenly Man Cave</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sharlet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over in Christian Post, Christian Right leader &#8212; and Watergate felon &#8212; Chuck Colson offers a glimpse of his idea of Heaven: Nothing but sweet man-flesh as far as the eye can see! Colson&#8217;s writing about a press conference for the Manhattan Declaration, a document signed by all the Christian conservative heavies intended, says Colson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha killer Alex Rose, &#8220;best of the &#8216;Best&#8217;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sharlet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Killing the Buddha contributing editor Alex Rose&#8217;s story &#8220;Ostracon&#8221; is featured in the 2009 edition of The Best American Short Stories, selected this year by novelist Alice Sebold. In today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, critic Diane Scharper singles out Alex&#8217;s story for special praise:
Perhaps the best of the &#8220;Best&#8221; is Alex Rose&#8217;s &#8220;Ostracon,&#8221; a story that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Great Jewish Crank Intellectual</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sharlet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Danish-language readers everywhere: Have I got a skrift for you. New York, New York: Ti Vandringer I Ti Newyorkeres Fodspor by my friend Anne Mette Lundtofte. Anne Mette came to America, did a literature Ph.D. on Kierkegaard at NYU for kicks, then sat in on one of my courses in literary journalism. Which, it turns [...]]]></description>
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