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            <title><![CDATA[Is Marriage Really Less Valuable Than a College Degree?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Don’t get me wrong—I’m grateful for my college education. But the value of education can’t be compared to the value of a good spouse and marriage.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bias Behind Rejecting the Gospels’ Reliability]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For many skeptics, miracles are deemed impossible because they violate the laws of nature, or because God doesn’t exist in the first place. And this is logically sound—you can’t have some wondrous effect that requires divine power (which is what a miracle is) if there’s no divine power.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Do Scientologists Actually Believe?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The goal of Scientology is to help its members become aware that they are thetans and to restore their spiritual abilities through counseling, or “auditing,” sessions, the study of Hubbard’s work, and training courses.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reclaiming Mother’s Day from “Dog Moms”]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Motherhood is not a cute consumer category. It is not a vibe. It is not a pet-owner personality trait. To be a mother is to give, nurture, and protect life in ways that are hidden, exhausting, sacrificial, and holy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk: Friend to Catholics]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[God Owes Us a Ticket Out of Hell!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The argument is that if God were truly merciful, he would have mercy on the damned and preserve them from hellfire. But it falls flat.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[God, Family . . . and then Golf]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘No One in Hell’: Catechism-Approved?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Some suggest that the Catechism of the Catholic Church has specific paragraphs that spell out that no one is in hell. Can this be true?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don’t Post that Prayer Request]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Some social media prayer requests are...a little conspicuous, to say the least. It's good to ask for prayers, but we should be attentive to how we ask.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Catholics have a go-to Bible verse to defend calling our priests ‘Father.’ But Protestants have a comeback we need to be ready to defeat.]]></description>
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