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		<title>The Best Christian Movies of All Time</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2012/04/the-best-christian-movies-of-all-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Lists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben-Hur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Filmmakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus Of Nazareth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kendrick Brothers Sherwood Pictures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Passion Of The Christ]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.christianmovies.biz/ Some of you may not realize that I own a web site dedicated to Christian movies. I majored in film criticism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, back in the 1970s. Before the days of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Hollywood was starting to look very much like an industry on its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waitsel&#8217;s Best Movies of 2011</title>
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		<comments>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2012/02/waitsels-best-movies-of-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[GRAB YOUR POPCORN AND LET'S TALK This year was probably the best year for movies that I can remember. Let me say that again: the best year for movies that I can remember - and I can remember a long ways back. This year we saw what is, in my opinion, the best silent film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Vanity Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2012/02/leaving-vanity-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Buyan's Pilgrim's Progress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism vs Godliness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waitsel.com/blog/?p=1095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If life is a journey, as John Bunyan indicates in his Christian classic, The Pilgrim's Progress, and if there is a place along the way called "Vanity Fair," then many of us are probably in that place right now. ]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite &#8220;Little&#8221; Movies</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2012/01/my-favorite-little-movies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Lists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Award-Winning Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best "Little" Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First-Time Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Low-Budget Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waitsel's Best Movies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Independent, low-budget, big-hearted, well-written, well-acted, intimate little films that will bring a smile to your face and a tear to your eye. Twice a year, in the summer and at Christmas time, Hollywood rolls out their big blockbuster movies, full of special effects, including 3D. But you know, I rarely go back to those films. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Latest Work &#8211; Pirate Illustrations for the Travel Channel</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2012/01/my-latest-work-pirate-illustrations-for-the-travel-channel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2012/01/my-latest-work-pirate-illustrations-for-the-travel-channel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Illustration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Sharks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crazy Legs Productions Atlanta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Illustrator Waitsel Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Keys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pirate Black Caesar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Channel Hidden City]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waitsel.com/blog/?p=1024</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, I was asked to do some illustrations for a series on the Travel Channel called "Hidden City," dealing with infamous crimes in places that people like to visit. One of the episodes - which airs Tuesday, January 24 at 9 PM - is about the Florida Keys, and involves a notorious pirate named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check Out My New Christian Culture Web Site &#8211; Find Out How to Win a $100, $250, $500 and $1,000 Gift Certificate!</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2012/01/check-out-my-new-christian-culture-web-site-find-out-how-to-win-a-100-gift-certificate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2012/01/check-out-my-new-christian-culture-web-site-find-out-how-to-win-a-100-gift-certificate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win a Gift Certificate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waitsel.com/blog/?p=1022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.christianculture.biz/ Can you have Christian Culture without culture wars? I believe so. Culture is just an extension of a society. If that society has Christian values, their culture will reflect it. Culture influences upcoming generations. If we want our children to have values worth passing on, we have to embrace those values and communicate them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/12/a-christmas-carol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/12/a-christmas-carol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Christmas Carol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Finney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Carrey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Birth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scrooge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waitsel's Best Christmas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waitsel.com/blog/?p=980</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Best Christmas Story Ever - 5-Star Masterpiece How Christmas Was Saved, and So Were We In the mid 1800s, Christmas was a dying holiday, much as it is today. Many of its traditions were being neglected, and even the idea of "Peace on earth, good will to men" was considered passe. Then something extraordinary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Things Aren&#8217;t Working: or, The Parable of Bedford Falls</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/12/why-things-arent-working-or-the-parable-of-bedford-falls-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/12/why-things-arent-working-or-the-parable-of-bedford-falls-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bedford Falls vs Pottersville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bailey vs Potter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's A Wonderful Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small businesses vs big corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waitsel Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why things aren't working]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waitsel.com/blog/?p=978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe the movie, It's A Wonderful Life, holds the answer to why our nation is in trouble. Almost nothing in America is working right now: not our economic system, not our political system, not our housing system, not our educational system, not our health care system, not our immigration system, not our banking system, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hallelujah</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/11/hallelujah-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/11/hallelujah-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handel's Messiah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merry Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quinhagak Alaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yupiq Eskimo Village]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas from the small Yupiq Eskimo Village of Quinhagak, Alaska]]></description>
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		<title>One Hundred Eighty &#8211; 180 Movie</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/10/180-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/10/180-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Way of the Master]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this 33 minute video, people change their minds - 180 degrees - about abortion. Ray Comfort compares abortion in America today to the Holocaust in Germany in the 1940s.]]></description>
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		<title>Things to Come &#8211; Predictions for the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/09/things-to-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/09/things-to-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armageddon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern-day Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim threat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predictions for future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Alcorn's Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traveling at speed of light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waitsel.com/blog/?p=910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is wondering what is going to happen in both the near and distant futures. The prophets of doom are everywhere, and they're selling their books, CDs and online classes by the truckloads. I'm no Nostradamus; but I do believe I have a pretty good handle on where things are going, based on history and observing our planet over the past 50 years. Care to hear my predictions?]]></description>
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		<title>Howard Schultz Letter &#8211; Our Country Is Better Than This</title>
		<link>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/09/howard-schultz-letter-our-country-is-better-than-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.waitsel.com/blog/2011/09/howard-schultz-letter-our-country-is-better-than-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waitsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipartisan cooperation in Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Schultz letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Labels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our country is better than this]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upward Spiral .org]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waitsel.com/blog/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two versions of this letter out there, each with a different signature, both claiming to be from Howard Schultz. Both letters may be authentic; but I'm guessing the second signature is the authentic one since it is on the "official" Upward Spiral Facebook page. But who knows - both could be faked. Regardless, [...]]]></description>
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