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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Easter for Jews]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week we explored what Christians can learn from the meaning of Passover. This was an easy task since three of the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) taught that the Last Supper of Jesus was a Passover seder on the first night and the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-4057557</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Passover for Christians]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the winter holiday season of Christmas and Chanukah, I offered some thoughts on what Christians can learn from Chanukah and what Jews can learn from Christmas. Now, as the world and our spiritual rhythms awaken to spring, I offer again an ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-4050664</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Protestant Lent]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: As a born and bred and somewhat devout (liberal) Presbyterian, I want to respond to your question, "What do you give up for Lent?" Of course, as Protestants we were never taught to or expected to "give up" something. It has only been recently ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-4044208</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: More Lent lovers and one Lent hater]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: For Lent, I decided to embrace Pope Leo’s suggestion that we should disarm our language, avoiding harsh words and rash judgment. I am not Catholic; I am Italian Methodist, which, according to someone in the Diocese of Denver, is pretty much ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-4036574</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Lent is alive!]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Dear Rabbi Gellman, I just finished reading your article "What do you give up for Lent? As a Catholic person, my husband and I raised our children in the Catholic faith. And as we were raised we taught our children to "give up something for ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-4029323</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: What have you given up for Lent?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Father Tom was alive I used to tease him about Lent which are the 40 days before Easter. When I was a kid in Milwaukee, I had Catholic friends who would beg me for my bologna sandwiches on Fridays because Friday Lenten meals for them were ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-4021964</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Why did Michael ask about Sol?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Dear Rabbi Gellman, I enjoy your column and look forward to reading it every Sunday. Regarding Fr. Tom's message to Michael, I have to wonder why Fr. Tom visited Michael and not you? Sorry, no offense, but the skeptic in me wonders if Michael ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-4014401</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Ramadan mubarak!]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Umma, which is the Arabic word for the worldwide community of 2 billion Muslims, will celebrate the sacred month of Ramadan beginning at sunset on Wednesday, Feb. 18. Coincidentally that day is also Ash Wednesday for Christians and the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-4008708</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Ghosts, spirits, wraiths and poltergeists…]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been talking about ghosts recently and one of the most obvious big problems with this discussion is that many people are just not convinced that they are real. Showing folks that ghosts figure prominently in every single religion over ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-4001506</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Ghost stories]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: I recently read your article on ghosts. I had a few things happen to me after my Dad and Mom passed away (seven weeks apart). One day I came home from work and headed for the back room where I had to turn a corner. I stopped quickly because I ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-3994034</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Things that go bump in the night]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to talk about ghosts. For the first time in human history, we are living in a time when the conventional wisdom is that ghosts are not real. In fact, the belief that ghosts are real spiritual beings trapped somehow between life now and life ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-3987447</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: We need you, Martin]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 19 will be Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Sadly, it was not until 2000 that every state observed the memorial holiday. However, for me the greatest omission in the flood of tributes and biographies for this great man was the fact that most of...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-3981285</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: More on putting Christ back in Christmas cards]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[My critique of Christmas cards definitely struck a nerve. I wrote about how I was disappointed at how many Christmas cards left out any reference to the belief that Christmas is the day Christians celebrate the birth of the Messiah – Jesus ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-3973876</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: The spiritual value of New Year’s resolutions and my cable box]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of the new and baffling technologies is actually quite simple and dramatically effective. No matter what goes wrong with connecting my router to the world of streaming and the world of my house, the tech person on the other end of the line ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-3967808</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: The best and the worst Christmas cards]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first Christmas card was not sent out until 1843 and its message from its creator, Henry Cole, and his illustrator, John Calicott, was simple and to the point, “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.” That seems austere but perfect … and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-3961053</link>
 
    <pubDate>Dec/25/2025</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Why Christmas should matter to Jews]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas and Passover are the most interfaith friendly holidays in the calendar of sacred time. Passover is about freedom for all people and Christmas is about hope for all people. Although there are of course sectarian meanings in each holy day ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-3954472</link>
 
    <pubDate>Dec/18/2025</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The God Squad: Why Hanukkah should matter to Christians]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Father Tom Hartman and I created an annual winter custom that sharpened our interfaith instincts. Tommy wrote the Hanukkah column, and I wrote the Christmas column. Since his passing in 2016 I have tried in my way to preserve the essential ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/godsquad/s-3947779</link>
 
    <pubDate>Dec/11/2025</pubDate>
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