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					  <title><![CDATA[What Are We, Acrobats?]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/165/1/What-Are-We-Acrobats/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[As a kid I loved watching the circus on TV. And my favorite act was the tightrope walker. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Todd Ruth)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:36:40 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[From a Mom’s Perspective]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/164/1/From-a-Momas-Perspective/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[As my three kids become increasingly more interested in the upcoming elections, one of the two times my father ever set foot in my high school recently came to mind.&nbsp; ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Karen Norval)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:12:16 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Indoctrinated or Educated?]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/160/1/Indoctrinated-or-Educated/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Today church leaders have been bewildered about how detached high school graduates are from the local church.<br/><br/>What&#8217;s the causing this detachment?<br/><br/>You and me. <br/><br/>I&#8217;m convinced we&#8217;re a major part of the problem.<br/><br/> ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Chuck Bomar)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:04:02 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Maintenance by the Numbers]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/126/1/Maintenance-by-the-Numbers/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[#42: The answer to life, the universe, and everything&#8212;according to author of The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy series, Douglas Adams.<br/><br/>#47: Guaranteed, there&#8217;s at least one other Star Trek nerd out there who&#8217;s rejoicing with me on this one. I&#8217;d explain it to you, but it would take the whole column.<br/><br/>#231: The answer to the question I&#8217;m constantly asked.<br/><br/> ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Matthew McNutt)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 13:08:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Companions in Ministry]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/117/1/Companions-in-Ministry/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[More than a decade ago, a new church-planting pastor met a struggling graduate student who was looking for a place to live. Today this senior pastor and youth minister are friends, colleagues, coworkers, and, most importantly, companions in ministry.<br/> ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Will Penner)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:37:17 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Tossing Aside the Tract]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/90/1/Tossing-Aside-the-Tract/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[We were at a student conference getting &#8220;trained&#8221; on how to witness to people.<br/><br/>I sat and listened with my youth group. There were more than 600 students in the room. The guy up front was walking through a pamphlet I&#8217;d read at least a thousand times.<br/> ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Grant English)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:33:06 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Miracle Boy]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/69/1/Miracle-Boy/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[The summer before a young man&#8217;s senior year in high school typically includes having fun with friends, watching a little football, spending time at the lake on a hot summer&#8217;s day, or catching up with the endless supply of summer movies. But for Colten the summer of 2007 would be one that was far from typical. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Joshua-Paul  Johnian)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:18:09 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[For Now]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/63/1/For-Now/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Ten months ago my husband died. Our second child had just been born. I&#8217;d been banking on &#8220;happily ever after.&#8221; Now, he is dead and I am not. I&#8217;m here on this earth with my &#8220;happily ever after&#8221; shattered in small, small pieces around me. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Christine Thiele)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:03:16 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[What Would Jesus Do?]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/59/1/What-Would-Jesus-Do/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Just before lunchtime on April 20, 1999, I was sitting in a room with six youth leaders as another pastor burst into the room and interrupted our meeting with the news that &#8220;something bad was going down at Columbine.&#8221; He implored us to pray. We did. And then we carried on with our meeting. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Greg  Stier)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:50:42 PST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Obesity Epidemic]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/articles/57/1/The-Obesity-Epidemic/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Somewhere in Idaho there&#8217;s a kid eating an entire bag of Fiery Habanero Doritos. Meanwhile, in Vermont, another kid is eating a one-pound bag of Skittles. The tropical ones. Seriously. It happens all the time. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Matthew McNutt)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:37:55 PST</pubDate>
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