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	<title>Rusty Whitener</title>
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	<description>Screenwriter, Actor, Novelist</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Decision&#8221; movie, with Natalie Grant, Oct. 16 on GMC-TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The movie &#8220;Decision&#8221; premieres Sunday, Oct. 16 on GMC-TV.  Go to www.watchgmctv.com for details.  This lead role was a great opportunity for me and it&#8217;ll be gratifying to see it on TV!  Country singer Billy Dean plays my son-in-law.]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Book of the Year Award &#8211; Gold Medal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My novel &#8220;A Season Of Miracles&#8221; received the 2010 Book of the Year Award&#8217;s Gold Medal from Foreword Magazine, in the &#8220;Fiction-Religious&#8221; category.  I am thrilled and humbled; the Award is the result of a year-long judging process by a panel of librarians and booksellers.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rustywhitener.com/2010-book-of-the-year-award-gold-medal/</link>
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		<title>Acting:&#8221;Undaunted&#8221; &#8211; Traverse City, MI &#8211; May, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am privileged and very grateful to have a role in a film about the writer and speaker Josh McDowell, filming in Traverse City, Michigan.  McDowell is one of my heroes so this is a very special treat for me.  Director Cris Krusen says I&#8217;m the villain in the film and according to McDowell&#8217;s true [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rustywhitener.com/actingstubborn-journey-traverse-city-mi-may-2011/</link>
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		<title>Christy Awards: July 2011: Atlanta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My novel &#8220;A Season Of Miracles&#8221; was a Finalist in two categories at the Christy Awards, &#8220;First Novel&#8221; and &#8220;Contemporary Fiction.&#8221; I did not win, but it was a thrill to be there with my wife Rebecca and my mom!  The keynote speaker was Randall Wallace who wrote &#8220;Braveheart&#8221; and &#8220;Pearl Harbor&#8221; and directed &#8220;Secretariat.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rustywhitener.com/christy-awards-july-11-2011-atlanta/</link>
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		<title>Got a Vision Quest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us have said, more than once, we would like to be more like Jesus.  Do we really?  How does that happen?  Do we simply count on God to “drop more Jesus” on top of us as the days and years go by?  Maybe we believe going to a church building regularly is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rustywhitener.com/muscular-integrity/</link>
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		<title>Lead role in &#8220;Decision&#8221; (w/ Natalie Grant) &#8211; GMC TV Sept, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The movie &#8220;Decision,&#8221; in which I was blessed to play a lead role with Christian singer Natalie Grant, airs on GMC TV Channel in September, 2011.  I play Wyatt Johnson, Natalie&#8217;s dad and country singer Billy Dean&#8216;s father-in-law.  Michael Rosenbaum also stars in a movie written by Kevan Otto that deals with the ultimate decision [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rustywhitener.com/radio-interview-in-faith-network-march-17-2010/</link>
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		<title>Nov. 2010, Nashville: Acting in Movie &#8220;Decision&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had a wonderful time in a lead role in the movie &#8220;Decision&#8221; playing &#8220;Wyatt,&#8221; a tough-as-nails farmer/hunter who mentors his despairing grandson (played by Michael Rosenbaum).  Natalie Grant was my daughter and Billy Dean played my son-in-law.  Tom Makowski directed and Steve Shaw was D.P.  Very worthwhile project and a solidly filmed feature.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rustywhitener.com/sept-4-norfolk-va-the-bill-collector-on-the-big-screen/</link>
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		<title>First Place &#8211; Gideon &#8211; June 3 &#8211; 8, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thrilled my screenplay &#8220;Allah&#8217;s Fire&#8221; won First Place at the wonderful Gideon Media Arts Conference &#38; Film Festival at Ridgecrest Conference Center in Ridgecrest, North Carolina. My screenplay is an adaptation of the novel Allah&#8217;s Fire (by Gayle Roper and Chuck Holton). It was wonderful to rendezvous with great friends and awesome artists; lovers of truth and grace.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rustywhitener.com/march-2-7-2010/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth and Grace can change the world.  The problem is the world never stands still long enough to be a target for those change agents.  The world IS the change agent.  If we hope to shed Truth and rain Grace on the world, we will have to anticipate the world’s next revolving, the culture’s next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rustywhitener.com/260/</link>
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		<title>Movies Are Changing . . . Jan. 1, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[            Near the end of 2009, I wrote a newspaper column recommending people see “The Blind Side” movie.  A lot of the country has; in certain weeks it passed “Twilight: New Moon” as the number one movie at the box office (for that week).  This is also the type of movie that has “legs,” meaning it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rustywhitener.com/movies-are-changing-jan-1-2010/</link>
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