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    <description> Rebecca Hagelin is a public speaker on the family and culture and the author of the new best seller, 30 Ways in 30 Days to Save Your Family. Visit Rebecca Hagelin's website at www.HowToSaveYourFamily.com   where you can sign up to receive her free e-newsletter containing the Culture Challenge of the Week and how to fight back. Rebecca Hagelin is also senior communications fellow for The Heritage Foundation.

 Rebecca Hagelin and her husband, Andy, have been married for over twenty years and are parents of three teenagers. They reside in the Washington, DC area. </description>
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      <title>Culture Challenge of the Week:  Reaching the Non-Religious</title>
      <description>A recent Gallup poll highlights what many political insiders know intuitively: that the cultural divide between religious and non-religious Americans plays out at the ballot box.

Two-thirds (66%) of Americans...</description>
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      <title> Christians: Savagely Bullied</title>
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	Culture Challenge of the Week: Being Christian 

	It&amp;rsquo;s a story that&amp;rsquo;s been largely ignored by the mainstream press--perhaps because it challenges the politically correct storyline that it&amp;rsquo;s gay...</description>
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      <title>Chuck Colson, Sin, and the Power of Love</title>
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Culture Challenge of the Week: Wrong Turns

The news coverage of Chuck Colson's recent death betrayed our secular culture's continuing discomfort with God's power to transform hearts and lives. Colson, "born again"...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Culture Challenge of the Week:  Contempt for Stay-at-Home Moms</title>
      <description>It took some pressure, but Hilary Rosen finally apologized.  The Democrat strategist displayed a tin ear to women's concerns when she snidely remarked that Ann Romney-mother of five and wife of presidential contender...</description>
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      <title>Jane Austen's Advice: Choose the Right Man and Live Happily Ever After</title>
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	Culture Challenge of the Week:  Finding A Good Man

	Call it the lament of the young, single woman: there are no good men left. Or if there are, where are they? And how can a young woman pursue a healthy,...</description>
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      <title>The Challenge of Easter: How Will You Respond?</title>
      <description>Culture Challenge of the Week: Indifference

What does it take to put your life on the line for others?

As Americans, we're fascinated by sacrificial heroism, and rightfully so. Our country's history unfolds in the...</description>
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      <title>Parents, not Government, Should Combat Obesity   </title>
      <description>Culture Challenge of the Week:  The Food Police

 

Food is in the news.  Specifically, the food that Big Government wants you-or your children--to eat.  

 

It started with Michelle Obama's headline grab: in...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Abortion's Slippery Slope: When People aren't "Persons"</title>
      <description>Culture Challenge of the Week:  The Temptation to Say Nothing
 
Decades ago, when Roe v. Wade was decided, conservatives and many religious folks predicted that the country had begun an inevitable slide towards a...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Left Declares Victory</title>
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	Culture Challenge of the Week: The Left Declares Victory

	&amp;ldquo;The culture wars are over, and the Republicans lost.&amp;rdquo; So says liberal columnist  John Alter.

	He&amp;rsquo;s not the only one declaring...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Social Media Makes Adoption Easier</title>
      <description>Culture Challenge of the Week: Adoption, an Invisible Option 

One lopsided statistic easily overlooked in the abortion debate is this: 3700 abortions occur each day, drastically outnumbering the 68 adoptions that...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Wanted: A Captain to Save the Ship </title>
      <description>Culture Challenge of the Week: America, Listing Left and Sinking Fast 

Who can forget the images last month of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, tipped on its side, half submerged in frigid waters off the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Newt and Mitt: Two Sides of the Same Coin</title>
      <description>Many folks who oppose Mitt Romney do so due to the uncertainty of where he will stand on certain issues; his support of the individual mandate that forces people to buy health care insurance; and a general tendency to...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Blinded By Hate</title>
      <description>There's nothing that unifies conservatives more than this: We love to hate the media.

And no one knows how to take that shared passion and incite us into a mob better than Newt Gingrich.

He is a formidable...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Culture Challenge of the Week: The Tipping Point</title>
      <description>The past few weeks President Obama requested a trillion dollar increase to the debt limit, appointed another liberal to head the Domestic Policy Council, rejected the Keystone Oil Pipeline and rallied nearly 200...</description>
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      <title>Culture Challenge of the Week: Knowing Christ</title>
      <description>Who is this Jesus that was just celebrated the world over?

A prophet? A "good man"? Or, is he the God incarnate as he claimed?
 
Answering this for ourselves is the single greatest question we will ever face.
...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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