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		<title>Quiz: How Millennial Are You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias and Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COVER STORY: The New Greatest Generation WATCH: Joel Stein Lives Like a Millennial for a Day MORE: I&#8217;m Not on Facebook and I Don&#8217;t Regret It—Yet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=119524&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hurt, But Helping…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 11:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last November, we featured the love story of Army Captain Greg Galeazzi and Summer Buckley here on Battleland. Galeazzi, 27, was wounded in an IED blast nearly two years ago in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, losing both of his legs and suffering severe damage to his right arm. It’s time to share some more good news: last month, Galeazzi and Buckley moved to Maryland to continue his recovery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center just outside Washington, D.C. He can now walk a mile (see for yourself)! Galeazzi also is championing the cause of servicemen and women whose injuries are not as easily seen as his own. He recently participated in the MakeItVisible campaign, a project of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, to build treatment centers for the thousands of soldiers suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress. The group hopes to build nine treatment centers at military bases across the country. Sunday night, CBS&#8217;s 60 Minutes ran a segment on the “Invisible Wounds of War,” and ran a MakeItVisible spot featuring Galeazzi. “When people meet me, or hear about my struggles, it is easy for them to see what I gave and what I sacrificed,” Galeazzi says. “Unfortunately, for hundreds of thousands of veterans, their scars aren&#8217;t as easy to see. With traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder, scores of men and women live each day in suffering.” Bill White of MakeItVisible says the group wants to raise $100 million to build treatment centers at Fort Belvoir, Va., Fort Bragg, N.C., Camp Pendleton, Calif., Fort Campbell, Ky., Fort Carson, Colo., Camp Lejeune, N.C., Fort Lewis, Wash., Fort Riley, Kan. “We&#8217;ve raised almost $30 million to date,” he says, “and if we secure all the funds needed, we can build all of these treatment centers in less than 11 months.” You can help Captain Galeazzi help his fellow troops here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=119386&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Tebow: Now Set for Liftoff?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pro football was not the thing that made Tim Tebow famous. Yes, Tebow gave the NFL a few surreal moments in 2011—and a chill-inducing, 80-yard, game-winning touchdown with mere seconds left on the clock. But Tebow stole the national spotlight because he followed Jesus and made the football field a revival tent.  So, when the New York Jets released him on Monday morning, the internet went crazy over the rather routine release of a third-string quarterback: did the NFL finally beat the Jesus-freak? Tebow has always been an evangelist, and real evangelists preach wherever they are, with whatever pulpit happens to be handy. Tebow is not losing ground in the evangelical movement because he stopped delivering last-minute NFL victories. He still has over 2.2 million Twitter followers—twice as many as Rick Warren. He still encourages those followers to pray for tragedies like Boston and West Texas. He still stands for abstinence before marriage. He is still a top Christian author—his memoir Through My Eyes sold more copies in 2011 than even Love Wins, Rob Bell’s hotly debated book about heaven and hell. His Tim Tebow Foundation still provides resources for underprivileged children around the world. (MORE: The Tebow Error: After New York Debacle, Does QB Have An NFL Future?) Tebow’s identity grew from a divine calling that came years before football entered his life—he was dubbed the “miracle baby” for surviving in-utero complications that made his mother’s doctors consider abortion. His parents named him Timmy after St. Paul’s fellow missionary Timothy, whose name means “Honoring God.” Tebow grew up memorizing Bible verses and going on medical missions trips. Even after he became a football whiz-kid, he continued to preach in prisons, schools, and hospitals. Putting “John 3:16” on his eyeblack was his way of being a modern missionary, and a successful one—it set off 92 million Google searches for evangelicalism’s most famed Bible verse. Now Tebow may even have more options open to him. He has an established platform and the ear of the American evangelical mainstream. He tweeted out Proverbs<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=118482&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope Amid Disaster: Sermons After the Boston Bombings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<title>Evangelicos: A Way Back for the GOP</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/08/evangelicos-a-way-back-for-the-gop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Rise of Evangélicos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Sunday late last summer, I saw a sign on the side of the road in Adelphi, Md. It was small, wedged between dozens of presidential campaign signs, and it was in Spanish: Iglesia de Dios del Evangelio Completo. Down the road I found another sign: Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana de Maryland. Soon I started seeing signs for Protestant Latino churches everywhere. There was even one right behind my apartment in Virginia. And so I decided to visit two of the largest Latino Protestant churches in the area—La Roca de la Eternidad in Adelphi and Iglesia Cuadrangular el Calvario in nearby Silver Spring. What I discovered signaled a Latino Reformation. Both churches were doubling in size every few years. Many of the congregants were Catholic converts, and even more may have been undocumented. All were fervent believers—they sang with hands high, danced during worship, and often brought their own tambourines and flags to Sunday services. They were charismatic and believed in miracles. They told me their stories over tamales and café con leche—how they converted, how God healed their physical illnesses, and how their churches became refuges from hunger and homelessness. To the mainstream American culture, and even other white evangelical churches, they were invisible. But they were hiding in plain sight. (MORE: Does Pope Francis&#8217; Outreach to Non-Catholics Signal Deeper Reform?) The story of both churches repeats itself across America and is our cover story this week (available to subscribers here).  Latino evangelicals are one of the fastest growing segments of America’s churchgoing millions. According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, more than two-thirds of the 52-million-plus Latinos in the US are Catholic; by 2030, that percentage could be closer to half, and many are joining evangelical Protestant ranks. It is difficult to track the numbers of the groundswell of these new Protestants. They often meet in storefronts or living rooms, and language barriers complicate the census process. But there are also rising evangelical Latino megachurches. I met Pastor Wilfredo De Jesús, who leads the 17,000-strong<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=114424&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Hispanics Are Becoming Less Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<title>Cardinal Dolan Reacts to the Pope’s Resignation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<title>The $50,000 Inauguration Hotel Suite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<title>Of War and Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Captain Gregory Galeazzi and community activist Summer Buckley have a romance made for Thanksgiving. It began in July 2010, when Greg, 27, was visiting Washington, D.C., two weeks before a year-long deployment to Afghanistan. He met Summer, 25, at a bar in the capital&#8217;s Adams Morgan neighborhood. “It was one of those things where you were like, ‘I’d really like to pursue something with you, but I’ve got to go,’&#8221; he recalls. &#8220;So we said that we’d exchange emails, phone numbers, and said we would write to each other. I didn’t think it would go anywhere, but it wouldn’t hurt to try.” It was a chance meeting that would change their lives. The next weekend, Summer, from Tucson, Ariz., was traveling to Seattle to visit her grandparents, when her connecting flight in Denver got cancelled. She remembered that Greg, an Army Ranger from Glastonbury, Conn., was stationed at Fort Carson, near Colorado Springs. “I think I texted him,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I was too chicken to call.&#8221; He drove 90 minutes to spend the day with her. “We were both such rational people,” Summer says. &#8220;We had nothing to lose because nothing was ever going to come from it.” Her grandmother knew better. &#8220;What a soldier!&#8221; she exclaimed after Summer explained her Colorado delay. &#8220;You should have just stayed the whole weekend!” Family photo Captain Gregory Galeazzi in Afghanistan Summer decided to visit Greg one last time in Colorado Springs shortly before his first deployment to Afghanistan. “We went hiking, met friends, relaxed. We were both like, what the heck are we doing?&#8221; she says. &#8220;We are never going to see each other again.&#8221; After arriving in Afghanistan in July 2010, Greg began pulling security at the Kandahar governor&#8217;s palace in the violent southeastern part of the country. Less than a month into his tour, he got word that an infantry platoon had lost its leader and staff sergeant in an IED explosion. He was ordered to fill the gap. “I got a call saying the commander was on his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=95226&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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