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  <title><![CDATA[A question of ethics]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/everyday/2008/07/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Everyday Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ Your church treasurer, who also happens to be an executive at a large accounting firm, serves your congregation faithfully and diligently. Then one day, a bombshell: his company faces criminal charges in connection with auditing irregularities. Should he continue to handle your church’s finances?]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:23:59 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Restless Soul]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/columns/2008/06/reading_matters/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ Turn off the cell phone. Put away the iPod. Your language skills are suffering.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:20:21 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[A dying wish]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/everyday/2008/05/dying_wish/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Everyday Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ You are a minister, and among your longtime parishioners is a gravely ill 19-year-old woman. In what amounts to a dying wish, she has asked you to marry her and a young man she had been dating casually before she took a turn for the worse. The young man is okay with the idea. 
Are you?
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  <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[A vacation or a chore?]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/everyday/2008/05/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Everyday Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ An old friend has suffered through a messy divorce, her mother's death and job loss. She talks of nothing but herself and is beginning to try your patience. Then she suggests that the two of you take a long-talked-about vacation together. What do you do?]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 16:32:33 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[On the worthy cause beat]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2008/05/worthy_cause/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ A veteran business reporter discovered that the philanthropic spirit is thriving in Canada today]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:27:45 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eating ethically]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2008/04/feature_eatingethically/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ Is it possible to shrink our ecological footprint 
by changing the way we fill our bellies?]]></description>
  <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2008/04/feature_eatingethically/]]></guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[An affair to consider]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/everyday/2008/04/youth_leaders/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Everyday Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ Your church’s youth group is booming thanks to two energetic adult volunteers. Both leaders are married, but one afternoon you see them leaving a motel together. The youth have spent a year fundraising for an exposure tour to Peru. They leave in a month. What do you do?]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:58:33 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[An ethical enigma called Afghanistan]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2007/10/an_ethical_enigma_called_afghanistan/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ It used to be that the United Church was almost automatically anti-war. Times have changed.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:29:31 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The shadow side of nuclear energy]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2007/10/the_shadow_side_of_nuclear_energy/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ Nuclear energy promises lots of electricity with minimal greenhouse gases. Its waste `footprint' is a different matter, though.]]></description>
  <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2007/10/the_shadow_side_of_nuclear_energy/]]></guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:31:11 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Death by design]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2007/05/death_by_design/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ We enjoy unprecedented control over how we live. Should we also control the way we die?]]></description>
  <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2007/05/death_by_design/]]></guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eco-ethics and the winds of change]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2007/04/ecoethics_and_the_winds_of_change/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ The fierce debate over an Ontario wind-energy project signals a looming ethical storm]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[When war in not an option]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2006/11/when_war_in_not_an_option/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
  <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2006/11/when_war_in_not_an_option/]]></guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[New casino, bad idea]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2005/12/new_casino_bad_idea/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fighting back against elder abuse]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2005/09/fighting_back_against_elder_abuse/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Climate change]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2005/04/climate_change/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ Into the gathering haze]]></description>
  <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2005/04/climate_change/]]></guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:20:43 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Spanking: Why a good smack isn't]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2004/06/spanking/]]></link>
  <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
  <description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
  <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.ucobserver.org/ethics/2004/06/spanking/]]></guid>
  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:28:32 EDT</pubDate>
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