<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Revelations</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/religion/onfaith/revelations?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><description>Revelations</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22034-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22034-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Making Churches Man-Friendly <br>Why do 13 million more women than men attend church services every week?]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1427-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1427-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Shroud Controversy Won't Quit <br>Given the fancy equipment used to identify criminals and murder victims these days -- some of it seen on the popular television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" -- you'd think modern scientists could determine once and for all whether the Shroud of Turin is artifact or forgery. Not so.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41516-2005Jan1.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41516-2005Jan1.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    The Holy Spirit Made Him Do It <br>Pope John Paul II has proclaimed more saints and blesseds in his 26-year reign than 38 of his predecessors combined, racking up a total of 1,828 people deemed worthy of veneration.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31090-2004Nov6.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31090-2004Nov6.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Paganism Is Growing -- Older <br>Paganism has grown steadily since taking off as an alternative religion in the 1960s and '70s, increasing from 8,000 U.S. practitioners a decade ago to 134,000, according to a recent survey. But what started largely as a youth movement now has an aging population, with as many as 40,000 pagans having reached age 50.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3067-2004Oct2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3067-2004Oct2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The healing power of prayer has become more than a catchphrase in Sunday school and church, with an increasing number of research institutions trying to measure the effectiveness of prayer in helping patients overcome disease.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61999-2004Sep4.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61999-2004Sep4.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  With the Publicans at Hooters <br>Hooters restaurants are famous for several things, Bible study not among them.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31064-2004Jul31.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31064-2004Jul31.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Songs of the Born-Again Atheist <br>Dan Barker writes religious songs that stir the soul, though not in an inspirational way. His goal is to have the opposite effect -- to point people away from God.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59830-2004May1.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59830-2004May1.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    A Big Cloning Job for the Raelians <br>Of the world's hundreds of religions, none captures the imagination more than the Canadian-based Raelian movement. Legitimacy is a different matter.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52733-2004Jan3.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52733-2004Jan3.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Baptists Plan Super Sunday <br>The Dallas Cowboys may not make it to the Super Bowl in Houston next month. But thousands of Texas Baptists plan to be there anyway, hoping to share the Gospel with more than 200,000 people expected to descend on the city Feb. 1.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51210-2003Nov1.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51210-2003Nov1.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Optimism About Afterlife <br>Americans must have a good image of themselves.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43840-2003Oct4.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43840-2003Oct4.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Spirituality of Critters <br>If your minister or rabbi isn't giving the spiritual guidance you need, why not consult your dog?]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15486-2003Aug2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15486-2003Aug2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gospel Music Fans' Dirty Secret <br>Some say it's just not Christian to steal. But that's exactly what many Christians are doing when they download gospel music from the Internet, burn  it onto CDs and make copies to pass around, according to John W. Styll, president of the Gospel Music Association.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revelations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7522-2003Jul3.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7522-2003Jul3.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Klingon Bible Begins Its Trek <br>Have Klingon-crazed Star Trek fans truly gone mad? Do they need to read Shakespeare in Klingon? Will their religious life be empty without a Klingon translation of the Bible?]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revelations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8084-2003May2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8084-2003May2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Cucumber' and Other Words of God <br>Whether God spoke directly through the writers and translators of biblical texts is a matter of considerable debate. Less questionable is the fact that 130 commonly used words and phrases first appeared in English translations of the Bible.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24162-2003Mar1.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24162-2003Mar1.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mothers of the Early Church <br> What's this -- a picture of a female bishop from the early church? Can it be that women served not only as priests but as high-ranking leaders?]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Religion on the Web]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48832-2002Oct5.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48832-2002Oct5.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Finding Religion on the Web <br> It may be hard to believe, but more Americans seek spiritual help online than have gone to Internet gambling sites, bid in online auctions or banked online, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13419-2003Feb2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13419-2003Feb2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jesus Used Cannabis Oil, Writer Says     February's High Times magazine takes the search for the historical Jesus to a place some might not want to go: the use of cannabis-infused oil for anointing leaders and healing the sick.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11598-2003Jan4.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11598-2003Jan4.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Keeping the Faiths<br> The United States may have developed an international reputation for protecting its own interests at the expense of others', but its emphasis on religion surpasses that of its wealthy peers, according to a 44-country survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revelations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58549-2002Nov30.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58549-2002Nov30.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mystery Worshipper Strikes<br> The year wouldn't come to a proper end without our taking note of area congregations visited by the Mystery Worshipper from ship-of-fools.com.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVELATIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59317-2002Nov2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59317-2002Nov2.html?nav=rss_metro/religion/onfaith/revelations</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:46:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bumper Sticker Theology<br> You'll probably recognize the winning entry in a bumper sticker contest mounted by <a href="http://beliefnet.com">beliefnet.com</a>, an interfaith Web site: "I don't question YOUR existence." --  God.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>