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		<title>Why Christianity Is Far More Sensible</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/why-christianity-is-far-more-sensible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[God's Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodicy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Than Whatever You’re Doing Right Now) [Some may say this is a tad crude, but I think it is very good. Marc is a Roman Catholic. I love this article and repost. By the way, I used the phrase “the world sucks” once in a sermon when I was a pastor and did I ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity During the First Millennium</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Church History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tradition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr David Bradshaw, Professor at the University of Kentucky Christianity during the first thousand years of its existence was markedly different from that familiar today. Here are some of its distinctive features. 1. The Authority of Tradition Most Christians today regard the Bible as the ultimate authority for their faith. Early Christians did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wise Words about &#8220;Freedom&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Free Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some wise words in regard to the American obsession with &#8220;freedom&#8221; (or freedom in general of course, but some Americans are obsessed with the illusionary concept which is leading the nation into disaster). &#8220;It is not freedom when we say to people that everything is permitted. That is slavery. To improve one must have difficulties. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Filioque</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/on-the-filioque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 03:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Filioque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lecture by Dr Peter Gilbert, of De unione ecclesiarum given to the Youngstown, Ohio chapter of the Society of St John Chrysostom (December 4th, 2009). I  recognize that this lecture has some serious deficiencies; it really does not accomplish all that it sets out to do. Towards the end, it becomes dense and obscure, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of the Bishop of Rome in the Communion of the Church in the First Millennium</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primacy and Catholicity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aghios Nikolaos Introduction 1. In the Ravenna document, &#8220;The Ecclesiological and Canonical Consequences of the Sacramental Nature of the Church – Ecclesial Communion, Conciliarity and Authority&#8221;, Catholics and Orthodox acknowledge the inseparable link between conciliarity and primacy at all levels of the life of the Church: &#8220;Primacy and conciliarity are mutually interdependent. That is why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Schism (?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Roman Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unity of the Faith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by David Bentley Hart The division between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches—officially almost a millennium old, but in many ways far older—has often enough been characterized as the ineluctable effect of one or another irreconcilable and irreducible difference: political (Caesars and Czars as opposed to princes and popes), cultural (Greek or Byzantine as opposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Orthodox Understanding of Primacy and Catholicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 01:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev In the Orthodox tradition the theme of primacy is closely connected with that of church authority, which, in its turn, is for the Orthodox theologian indivisible from the idea of ‘catholicity’ or ‘conciliarity.’ As is well known, for various historical reasons the Orthodox Church never had and to this very day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Orthodox Gospel Presented by a Protestant Pastor</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/the-orthodox-gospel-presented-by-a-protestant-pastor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/the-orthodox-gospel-presented-by-a-protestant-pastor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 21:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[God's Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Gospel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>O Sola Fide!  Church Fathers on Eternal Security</title>
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		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/o-sola-fide-church-fathers-on-eternal-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Providence & Free Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; by Derek Ouellette (A Protestant) I’m not quite sure to what extent, but it is my suspicion that the earliest Christians understood salvation differently than we do. I also think the Bible writers themselves understood salvation, and the nuances of “faith”, “works”, “law”, and so on, differently than we. [Yes, Derek, it is called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel and Grace in Orthodoxy</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/the-gospel-and-grace-in-orthodoxy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/the-gospel-and-grace-in-orthodoxy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Gospel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many Protestants ask Orthodox Christians what the Orthodox understanding of the Gospel is. This is our attempt at explaining to Protestants (and others) what the gospel is: The gospel is that the kingdom of Heaven has broken into our realm through the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. If we have an incorrect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding the Church</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/regarding-the-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/regarding-the-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 01:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Theosis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Elder Porphyrios The Church is a beginning-less, never-ending, eternal institution, just like Her founder, the Triadic God, is beginning-less, never-ending and eternal. The Church is uncreated, just as God is uncreated.&#160; She has existed before the ages, before the angels, before the creation of the world.&#160; ‘before the foundation of the world’ (Ephesians 1:4), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Harmony in Marriage Differences</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/marriage-harmony-in-marriage-differences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/marriage-harmony-in-marriage-differences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 06:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Elder Paisios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Elder Paisios [source] A man came to my cottage once, telling me how depressed he was, because of the disputes he had with his wife. However, I didn’t find any serious problem. He frowned because of something, and his wife frowned about something else, so they couldn’t join together. In this case a little “furnishing” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Patrick of Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/st-patrick-of-ireland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/05/st-patrick-of-ireland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Historical Tidbits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Father James Thornton It is natural for us, members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, to remember most vividly the Saints and Holy Fathers of the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean and Eastern Europe and to forget that the West was also once Orthodox, that its peoples were, in those days, every bit as much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Honest Roman Catholic Priest in Regard to the Development of the Pope</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/an-honest-roman-catholic-priest-in-regard-to-the-development-of-the-pope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/an-honest-roman-catholic-priest-in-regard-to-the-development-of-the-pope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bishops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Catholicism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes talk to sincere Roman Catholics who tell me that the Orthodox Church is without the “Authority of Christ” because they are not in communion with Rome &#8212; that the Orthodox Bishops are separated from the authority of Christ established within His true Church because they do not embrace the Pope of Rome as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Symeon&#8217;s Understanding of Salvation</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/st-symeons-understanding-of-salvation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/st-symeons-understanding-of-salvation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fall of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreknowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Symeon the New Theologian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[St Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022 AD) was a Byzantine Christian monk and poet who was the last of three saints canonized by the Orthodox church and given the title of &#8220;Theologian&#8221; (along with John the Apostle and Gregory of Nazianzus). &#8220;Theologian&#8221; was not applied to Symeon in the modern academic sense of theological study, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of Augustine of Hippo in Western Theology</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/the-role-of-augustine-of-hippo-in-western-theology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/the-role-of-augustine-of-hippo-in-western-theology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Augustine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taken from Fr John W. Morris, &#8220;The Historic Church: An Orthodox View of Christian History&#8221; &#160; It is virtually impossible to over state the role of Augustine in the development of Western Christian thought. His works not only shaped Roman Catholic theology, but played a major role in the development of Protestantism. One Roman Catholic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity Did Not Begin in 1517</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/christianity-did-not-begin-in-1517/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/christianity-did-not-begin-in-1517/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Historical Tidbits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protestantism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Christianity did not begin in 1517 when Martin Luther nailed the famous Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the Palace Church in Wittenberg, Germany. It was not perfected a few years later when John Calvin began to teach in Geneva, or during the revivals of nineteenth century America, as many Protestant Evangelical publications on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St John of Kronstadt on the Historicity of Scripture</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/st-john-of-kronstadt-on-the-historicity-of-scripture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/st-john-of-kronstadt-on-the-historicity-of-scripture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Historicity of Scripture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St John of Kronstadt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“When you doubt in the truth of any person or any event described in Holy Scripture, then remember that &#8220;all Scripture is given by inspiration of God,&#8221; (2 Tim 3:16) as the Apostle says, and is therefore true, and does not contain any imaginary persons, fables, and tales, although it includes parables which everyone can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Cyprian (250 AD) and Matthew 16:18</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/st-cyprian-250-ad-and-matthew-1618/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/st-cyprian-250-ad-and-matthew-1618/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Episcopacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unity of the Faith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the principle of unity in the Church? How are we to understand Christ’s words to St. Peter : “You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church”? Matthew 16:18 St. Cyprian of Carthage (about 250 AD) explains how this unity of the Church is held together : If anyone considers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose and Comfort in Affliction</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/purpose-and-comfort-in-affliction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/purpose-and-comfort-in-affliction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[St. Silouan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Lord loves mankind but He sends affliction that we may perceive our weakness and humble ourselves, and for this humility receive the Holy Spirit. With the Holy Spirit all things are good, all things are joyful, all things are well. One man may suffer much from poverty and sickness but does not humble himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s to Blame for Human Suffering?</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/whos-to-blame-for-human-suffering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/whos-to-blame-for-human-suffering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Repentance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott Cairns How can one believe in a loving God who allows the innocent to suffer? I’ve been asked this many times, and I’ve never been quick to answer. Subconsciously, I’ve probably asked much the same thing in the past. While I may not frame the matter this way now, it remains a useful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Harrowing of Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/the-harrowing-of-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/the-harrowing-of-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Descent into Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Saturday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pascha]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by SJL In the Apostles’ Creed we profess that Christ “descended into Hell.”&#160; Another priest recently asked me to justify that tenet of the Apostles’ Creed according to Scripture.&#160; He said, “I know that it pre-dates the Great Schism and that it is not an East versus West issue, but if I can’t find it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christ&#8217;s Descent into Hades</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/christs-descent-into-hades/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/christs-descent-into-hades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Descent into Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Saturday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pascha]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What did Jesus do on Holy Saturday? Daniel Burke (Source : RNS) Every Christian knows the story: Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. But what did he do on Saturday? That question has spurred centuries of debate, perplexed theologians as learned as St. Augustine, and prodded some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/good-friday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/good-friday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Friday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pascha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Isaiah 53:1-12 NKJV&#160; Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?&#160; (2)&#160; For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music for Reflection</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/music-for-reflection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/music-for-reflection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music for Reflection]]></category>

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		<title>Passover to Easter / Pashca</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/passover-to-easter-pashca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/passover-to-easter-pashca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pascha]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the Origins of the Primary Feast of the Christian Church by William J. Tighe For all Christians today who observe a “liturgical year,” the high point of that year is the annual commemoration of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection at the end of Holy Week. Good Friday recalls to the faithful the Lord’s suffering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Fathers on Foreknowledge and Freewill</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/church-fathers-on-foreknowledge-and-freewill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/church-fathers-on-foreknowledge-and-freewill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreknowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Will]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Calvinists suggest that God&#8217;s foreknowledge is based on His decretal&#160;plan and/or knowledge of causal relations rather then based on the future. The Early Church Fathers disagree. (H/T SEA) &#160; Diodore of Tarsus (circa 390) This text [Romans 8:29-30] does not take away our free will. It uses the word foreknew before predestined. Now it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Orthodox Response to &#8220;Why I Hate Religion&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/an-orthodox-response-to-why-i-hate-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/04/an-orthodox-response-to-why-i-hate-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Mindset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a video made by Jefferson Bethke entitled “Why I Hate Religion” Orthodox Christian Network has produced this excellent video : &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox Predestination Long Before John Calvin (Part III)</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/orthodox-predestination-long-before-john-calvin-part-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/orthodox-predestination-long-before-john-calvin-part-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predestination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Symeon the New Theologian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is part three on St Symeon the New Theologian who wrote on the Biblical topics of predestination and fore-ordination. St Symeon reflects the consensus of teaching of the Orthodox Church, long before John Calvin made it the cornerstone of his own unbiblical system&#160; – RAS &#160; Repentance and predestination to salvation – St Symeon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox Predestination Long Before John Calvin (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/orthodox-predestination-long-before-john-calvin-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/orthodox-predestination-long-before-john-calvin-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predestination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part two of three posts on St Symeon the New Theologian who wrote on the Biblical topics of predestination and fore-ordination. St Symeon reflects the consensus of teaching of the Orthodox Church, long before John Calvin made it the cornerstone of his own unbiblical system&#160; – RAS&#160; The Fore-Ordained The Church is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLASPHEMY AT BALAMAND</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/blasphemy-at-balamand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/blasphemy-at-balamand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ecumenicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Catholicism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jesse Dominick This is a paper Jesse wrote against the Balamand Statement of 1993 which was a betrayal of Orthodoxy in favor of Ecumenism with the Roman Catholics. “We have cut the Latins off from us for no other reason than that they are not only schismatics, but also heretics. For this reason it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox Predestination Long Before John Calvin (Part I)</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/orthodox-predestination-long-before-john-calvin-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/orthodox-predestination-long-before-john-calvin-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predestination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Symeon the New Theologian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 2000 years, the Orthodox Church has granted the title of “Theologian” to only three Saints:&#160; St. John the Apostle, St. Gregory of Nazianzen, and St. Symeon. St. Symeon the New Theologian was born in Galatia in the year 949.&#160; He was educated in Constantinople, and became abbot of the monastery of St. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox Catholicism and Roman Catholicism: Can Both Be the Truth of the Gospel?</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/orthodox-catholicism-and-roman-catholicism-can-both-be-the-truth-of-the-gospel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/orthodox-catholicism-and-roman-catholicism-can-both-be-the-truth-of-the-gospel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unity of the Faith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Thomas Seraphim Hamilton &#160; Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism are in fact dissimilar in almost every way. This may be shocking to some people, especially Evangelicals, who note the superficial similarities between the Orthodox faith and the faith of Roman Catholics. After all, don&#8217;t we both confess the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Main Problem in the Church, Society, and in the West Overall</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/our-main-problem-in-the-church-society-and-in-the-west-overall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/our-main-problem-in-the-church-society-and-in-the-west-overall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Mindset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worldview]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Since I live in America, I see that American Christians and the Western Church overall (including the outlook of many Orthodox Christians) have a problem. The problem is as “rugged individuals” we have bought into the idea of separating “faith/religion” from the rest of society and life, whether it be government, politics, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intellectual Chaos and Disintegration</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/intellectual-chaos-and-disintegration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/intellectual-chaos-and-disintegration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Mindset]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“We are living now in an age of intellectual chaos and disintegration. Possibly modern man has not yet made up his mind, and the variety of opinions is beyond any hope of reconciliation. Probably the only luminous signpost we have to guide us through the mental fog of our desperate age is just the &#8216;faith [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Creationism&#8221; Driving People from the Church?</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/creationism-driving-people-from-the-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/creationism-driving-people-from-the-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creation & Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jesse Dominick [Again, when I post 3 items from one author in one day, you know his stuff is excellent. He delineates on this accusation perfectly. Jesse is currently a Seminarian at St Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary – RAS] From an evolutionary thread in the Facebook &#8220;Ask an Orthodox Priest&#8221; group: However, in support of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man in Creation: The Cosmology of St. Maximus the Confessor</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/man-in-creation-the-cosmology-of-st-maximus-the-confessor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/man-in-creation-the-cosmology-of-st-maximus-the-confessor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Maximus the Confessor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jesse Dominick [source] The theology of creation and salvation in Orthodox Christianity upholds the centrality and kingship of mankind while simultaneously embracing a cosmological vision that is largely absent in western Christendom. A common characteristic of all creation is corruption and death, and yet we are told that God is not the author of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Repose to Resurrection: the Intermediate State of Souls</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/from-repose-to-resurrection-the-intermediate-state-of-souls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/03/from-repose-to-resurrection-the-intermediate-state-of-souls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Last Judgment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life after Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Mindset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jesse Dominick [source] [NOTE by RAS -- Many years to Jesse, who is going to be a great asset to the Church of Christ and a humble defender of its Holy Tradition] In a letter to Fr. Thomas Merton, the young Orthodox convert Eugene (later Fr. Seraphim) Rose wrote: “Above all, the Christian in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue on Free Will &amp; Determinism</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/02/dialogue-on-free-will-determinism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/02/dialogue-on-free-will-determinism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Providence & Free Will]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dialogue on Free Will &#38; Determinism: An email exchange between a Calvinist Pastor and Father John, an Orthodox Christian Priest FATHER JOHN: It has been asserted that foreknowledge of a choice, necessarily determines that choice, and eliminates other possibilities as possibilities. Let&#8217;s take the godless world of Star Trek, just to test whether this logic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are Orthodox Icons?</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/02/what-are-orthodox-icons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/02/what-are-orthodox-icons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Icons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Spirituality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The word Icon, which derives from the Greek word “Eikon”, is a religious work of art in Orthodox Christianity. The term is used in a number of contexts and means an image or representation of something or someone of greater significance, but in the more restricted sense in which it is understood, it means a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith, Truth and Temperance</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/01/faith-truth-and-temperance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salvation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Christopher Salamy &#8220;These three things God requires of all the baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.&#8221; &#8212; St. Gregory the Theologian We are all striving to be good people, to truly live as God’s children; but there are challenges that accompany our lives. How do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Origen to Deny the Literalness of Genesis? Don&#8217;t !</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/01/using-origen-to-deny-the-literalness-of-genesis-dont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Philo and Origen are not your friends, Dr. Alexander: A short survey of what two Biblical allegorists taught about Adam and Eve” by Vincent Torley&#160; [SOURCE] Dr. Denis Alexander, who is the Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge University, is an eminently qualified molecular biologist with a very odd combination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 as the Year of Hell Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/01/2011-as-the-year-of-hell-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by MORGAN GUYTON (Morgan is a Methodist and has brought up good questions here that some could say lean toward an Orthodox view of Hell) The Year 2011 will always be remembered as the year of the “hell debate” because of the explosion of Christian writing that rattled the popular evangelical conception of hell. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Liturgical Significance of Justin Martyr&#8217;s Apology</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/01/the-liturgical-significance-of-justin-martyrs-apology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2012/01/the-liturgical-significance-of-justin-martyrs-apology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin M. Davis [Mr Davis is an Anglican and and this paper of his is a good summary of Justin Martyr and early Orthodox Christianity&#160; – RAS] Justin Martyr wrote his famous Apology from Rome circa 150 A.D. He wrote to defend the Christian faith against attackers who claimed that Christians practiced cannibalism (they ate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Homily by St John of Kronstadt on the Nativity of Christ</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/a-homily-by-st-john-of-kronstadt-on-the-nativity-of-christ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Word became flesh; that is, the Son of God, co-eternal with God the Father and with the Holy Spirit, became human – having become incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary. O, wondrous, awesome and salvific mystery! The One Who had no beginning took on a beginning according to humanity; the One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvinist Santa</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/calvinist-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/calvinist-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time to enjoy for the Holidays !!! Santa is a Calvinist after Reading Good Books &#8220;Desiring St. Nick by John Flutist&#8221; and &#8220;In the Toymaker&#8217;s Hands by James Mutherovpirl&#8221; This video is so good !]]></description>
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		<title>A Prayer for Confession &#8211; St John of Kronstadt</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/a-prayer-for-confession-st-john-of-kronstad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/a-prayer-for-confession-st-john-of-kronstad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by St John of Kronstadt I, a sinful soul, confess to our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, all of my evil acts which I have done, said or thought from baptism even unto this present day. I have not kept the vows of my baptism, but have made myself unwanted before the face of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reformed Doctrines of Doom &amp; Gloom</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/the-reformed-doctrines-of-doom-gloom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/the-reformed-doctrines-of-doom-gloom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found anonymously elsewhere on a forum, but edited by me. Calvinists usually order these as TULIP (cuz tulips are pretty) but I have accurately put the doctrines in the proper order as UTLIP because everything really begins with God’s unconditional decrees of election and reprobation. The positive spin is first, then the doom and gloom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a Protestant</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/confessions-of-a-protestant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/confessions-of-a-protestant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Protestantism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Eric Hyde [Eric has been journeying into the Orthodox Church since he wrote this – I found it funny yet true -&#160; RAS] Growing up in a Protestant&#8217;ish faith (non-denominational, charismatic), and having never been exposed to the Orthodox Church, I am now beginning to see some of the contradictions that I lived so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creation and the End of  the World</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/creation-and-the-end-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/creation-and-the-end-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creation & Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopaidi&#160;&#160; [source]&#160; (This is both Parts I and II of the original article) Man has been trying to make sense of the creation ever since antiquity as it is manifested in the teachings of many religions and philosophies. Generally, we may say that ancient Greek philosophers have offered three explanations as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False Attacks on Creationists</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/false-attacks-on-creationists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gen 1:1 NET.&#160; In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Wisdom 1:13-14 RSVA&#160; because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. (14) For he created all things that they might exist, and the generative forces of the world are wholesome, and there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primacy &amp; Episcopacy</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/primacy-episcopacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Charles R. Ajalat [From Word Magazine, Publication of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, January 1996, pp. 7-11] ONE OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN IN OUR FALLEN WORLD IS THIS TENSION IN CHURCH ADMINISTRATION BETWEEN POWER AND HOLINESS; BETWEEN HAVING THE EFFICIENCY OF A SINGLE HUMAN DECISION-MAKER AND ALTERNATIVELY A SYSTEM WHERE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So what about Santa Claus?</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/so-what-about-santa-claus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anne Loridas Randall (an Orthodox mom) [shared with permission] I am mom to an almost 19 y.o and 17 y.o. boys.My firstborn&#8217;s name is &#34;Nicholas&#34;. Thus, I guess without any real religiosity to it, we simply focused on St. Nicholas (270-343) (a huge feast day in our house by the way!). Nicko knew the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salvation: Do Our Bodies Really Matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/salvation-do-our-bodies-really-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Mindset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Flesh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Eric Hyde So what’s the deal? How much attention should we give to ‘cleaning up our act’ in the flesh? Is it even possible? Doesn’t the Bible warn us against trying to war against sin, in that it (a) ultimately doesn’t work, and (b) gives us room to boast of our own good works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guard Your Conscience</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/guard-your-conscience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Let us stand firm in the fear of God, rigorously practicing the virtues and not giving our conscience cause to stumble. In the fear of God let us keep our attention fixed within ourselves, until our conscience achieves its freedom. Then there will be a union between it and us, and thereafter it will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvinist Eisegesis and 1 Timothy 2:4</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/calvinist-eisegesis-and-1-timothy-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Thomas Seraphim Hamilton 1Timothy 2:1-6&#160; Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, (2) for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. (3)&#160; For this is good and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Case Study of Roman Catholic Abuse of the Fathers</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/a-case-study-of-roman-catholic-abuse-of-the-fathers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/12/a-case-study-of-roman-catholic-abuse-of-the-fathers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Thomas Seraphim Hamilton A Roman Catholic argued : &#34;Unity of Peter&#34; = &#34;Unity of Episcopate&#34;, and Roman Catholics already affirm this. The question arises where is the essential present source of this unity. Cyprian said it&#8217;s the Throne of Peter which is principally in the Church of Rome in the 54th Epistle. That this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value Of Advance Directives</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/11/the-value-of-advance-directives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health Decisions: The Value Of Advance Directives By Fr. Steven Voytovich [from the OCA Resource Manual] Fr. Steven Voytovich, priest-in-charge of St. Alexis Orthodox Mission, Clinton, CT, is also a board-certified chaplain and certified Clinical Pastoral Education supervisor. He is currently Chaplain and CPE program administrator at Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT. The 21st century dawns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Me, My Bible and Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/11/just-me-my-bible-and-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[some articles are just SO good they HAVE to be repeated – RAS] “Just me, my Bible and Jesus” by Eric Hyde&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; [source] There are at least three false concepts that this popular one-liner implies: 1. The individual believer does not need the Body of Christ. It does not require master level courses in Church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodoxy and Contraception</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/11/orthodoxy-and-contraception/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Owen White [NOTE by RAS : written by the ochlophobist before he apparently went back to Rome. His article, in my opinion however, accurately reflects Orthodox theology and is very balanced. Original source is gone forever as his ochlophobist blog no longer exists] Contraception is a rhetorical corner Orthodox are often backed into. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodoxy and Contraception&#8211;A Change?</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/11/orthodoxy-and-contraceptiona-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eastern Orthodoxy and Contraception : Contemporary VS. Traditional Views By Taras Baytsar&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; [source] Teaching on contraception among Orthodox Churches The voices of the various Orthodox churches have been muted in addressing the issue of contraception and “family planning.” Even when church leaders have spoken, their communication is often inconsistent with early Church traditions and teachings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venerable Bede on the Creation of Adam and Eve</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/11/venerable-bede-on-the-creation-of-adam-and-eve/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/11/venerable-bede-on-the-creation-of-adam-and-eve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But after the habitation of the earth had been made and adorned, it remained for the inhabitor and lord of things himself to be created, for whose sake all things were ordained; and this follows: [1:26a/b] And he said, Let us make man in our image and likeness. Now it appears more clearly why it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Original Christian Gospel</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/11/the-original-christian-gospel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fr. James Bernstein (Priest at St. Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Lynnwood, WA)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; It may surprise you to hear that the original Gospel—the Good News preached by Jesus Christ and His disciples—is quite different from what is prominently presented today by the vast majority of Christians in America. For many Christians, hearing this original Gospel will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel of Tolerance : You Must Approve</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/the-gospel-of-tolerance-you-must-approve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Hartline [This Catholic Woman is BANG on, on every point, so I repost it.  Unfortunately the Orthodox Church is full of these people to which she refers– RAS] Judge not me nor anything I say, do, or want, lest ye be judged intolerant The Gospel of Tolerance really only has one rule: thou [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Call for an Orthodox Approach to Scripture</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/a-call-for-an-orthodox-approach-to-scripture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/a-call-for-an-orthodox-approach-to-scripture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holy Scripture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Mindset]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fr. Lawrence Farley The much needed ‘return to the Fathers’, Fr. Alexander Schmemann said, “means, above all, the recovery of their spirit, of the secret inspiration which made them true witnesses of the Church” (quoted in Liturgy and Tradition, p. 84f). That is, what is needed is a return to the mind-set, the inner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion and the Early Christian Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[I do not know if the author is an Orthodox Christian or not but this is a good article. I am still waiting for contrary evidence that the Orthodox Church does not view abortion as murder. Comments are welcome. This post stems from a “conversation” I had recently with another Orthodox Christian who stated  to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncorrected by Anything</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/uncorrected-by-anything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creation & Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good ole Chesterton . . . a Man of Plain Reason . . . Science is weak about these prehistoric things in a way that has hardly been noticed. The science whose modern marvels we all admire succeeds by incessantly adding to its data. In all practical inventions, in most natural discoveries, it can always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Solemn Caution Against the Ten Horns of Calvinism</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/a-solemn-caution-against-the-ten-horns-of-calvinism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/a-solemn-caution-against-the-ten-horns-of-calvinism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A Solemn Caution Against the Ten Horns of Calvinism” by Thomas Taylor (written in 1819) [Thomas Taylor is not an Orthodox Christian but what he writes to John Wesley in 1819 is right on . . . RAS] The sum of Calvinism is contained in that article in (Westminster) &#8220;the Assembly&#8217;s Catechism,&#8221; viz., &#8220;that God, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True Faith, Hope, and Trust</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/true-faith-hope-and-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by St John of Kronstadt Faith is the key of God&#8217;s treasury. She dwells in simple, kind, loving hearts.  “All things are possible to him that believeth.&#8221; Faith is a spiritual mouth, the more freely it opens the greater the stream by which the Divine springs enter into it; let this mouth freely open, as your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Approaches Man in the Incarnation</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/god-approaches-man-in-the-incarnation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Nativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by St John of Kronstadt “If men had not been created according to the image of God, the Lord would not have been incarnate of the most holy Virgin. O how our nature is raised, both in its creation and in its redemption! Through the incarnation of the Son of God from the most holy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Are the Gates of Hell?</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/what-are-the-gates-of-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bishop MITROPHAN &#8220;I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.&#8221; Immutable is the Word of the Lord: in truth the &#8220;gates of hell&#8221; cannot conquer the Church of Christ! But what are the &#8220;gates of hell?&#8221; St John Chrysostom says: &#8220;the gates of hell&#8221; is first and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the True Sense of  Evil</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/on-the-true-sense-of-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Protopriest Seraphim Slobodskoy Thoughts of evil in the world lies as a heavy burden of doubt in the hearts of many believers. It seems incomprehensible why God allows evil to exist. God in His Omnipotence could have eliminated evil. How can the infinitely merciful God endure having the evil actions of one scoundrel condemn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All that Christ Accomplished</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/all-that-christ-accomplished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Atonement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Hieromonk Damascene The topic of today&#8217;s talk—what Christ accomplished on the Cross—is of course a prime subject of contemplation during the Lenten season, as we prepare to prayerfully commemorate Christ&#8217;s passion, death, and the inevitable consequence of His death: His holy Resurrection. As we call to mind and repent of our sins during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augustine : The Source of Eight Heresies</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/augustine-the-source-of-eight-heresies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augustine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are eight of the more pervasive teachings of Augustine which became the source of heresies, namely: (1) the Filioque, (2) original sin, (3) the redefining of baptism, (4) predestination and irresistible grace, (5) the disavowal of free-will, (6) confusion in understanding the differences between essence and hypostases and the energies of the Holy Trinity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Fall of Man</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/on-the-fall-of-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Saint John Maximovitch (21 February/6 March 1954) The world was created good and called to the joy of life in union with the Source and Creator of life, the Lord God. The first to sin and to be torn from this union were angels. The angelic realm was split: some remained with God; others, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macro-Evolution is NOT Orthodox</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/macro-evolution-is-not-orthodox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Clark Carlton American society as a whole, and certainly the authors of science textbooks, simply assume evolution to be a scientifically established fact. Those who do not accept the assumption are labeled as &#34;fundamentalists&#34;, &#34;obscurantists&#34; and &#34;intellectual cave men.&#34; It is not surprising therefore, that many religious thinkers, including a few Orthodox Christians, have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why  Christianity Should Not Change with the Times</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/why-christianity-should-not-change-with-the-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Saint Theophan the Recluse (1863) It reached my ears that, as it seems, you consider my sermons very strict and believe that today no one should think this way, no one should be living this way and therefore, no one should be teaching this way. “Times have changed!” How glad I was to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Gregory Palamas on Evil</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/st-gregory-palamas-on-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That Evil which is Evil in itself, namely sin, originates from us. On the other hand, what our senses perceive as evil, because it is grievous and painful, can also be from God who, like a physician, uses it to restrain and heal what is truly evil. When those who have sinned can be cured, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On God Creating Mankind for Salvation</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/on-god-creating-mankind-for-salvation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Providence & Free Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by St. Gregory Palamas If all the ants in the world put together could never comprehend our most insignificant deed or thought, as we are superior to them in every respect, how are we able to understand the works and mind of God, Who is infinitely superior to us, or to make accurate conjectures about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Anger</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/on-anger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/on-anger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[from The Prologue from Ohrid Be angry and sin not (Psalm 4:4). Be angry with yourself, brethren, and sin no more. Be angry at your sins of thoughts and deeds, and sin no more. Be angry with Satan the father of lies (John 8:44), and no longer do his will. Be angry at sin in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Your Mind in Hell and Despair Not</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/keep-your-mind-in-hell-and-despair-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/10/keep-your-mind-in-hell-and-despair-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Mindset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Silouan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Word of God for Our Generation by Archimandrite Zacharias Zakharou Christ is the sign of God to men of every age, and his way is the only true one which leads to the eternal Kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. When the Jews erroneously asked Jesus for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obituary of One We All Knew</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/obituary-of-one-we-all-knew/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/obituary-of-one-we-all-knew/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:-Knowing when to come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too bad it wasn&#8217;t &#8216;Sinners in the Hands of a Merciful God&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/too-bad-it-wasnt-sinners-in-the-hands-of-a-merciful-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/too-bad-it-wasnt-sinners-in-the-hands-of-a-merciful-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by John Hamre&#160; During one of my travels though the internet, I came across an article discussing the difference in understanding of salvation between Protestants and Orthodox Christians. While I was reading the article, I was struck by a thought:&#160; Is there something more to the word and the idea of atonement than we in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Cannot . . . .  (Part I Salvation)</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/why-i-cannot-part-i-salvation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/why-i-cannot-part-i-salvation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protestantism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why I Cannot In Good Conscience Be A Protestant: Part I (Salvation) by Tom Jagels (used by permission) Classical and contemporary forms of Western Christianity, particularly and especially Protestantism, assert that God must punish sin in order to fulfill His perfect justice, and that if we are not damned, someone else must be punished and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Christians and Abortion</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/early-christians-and-abortion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/early-christians-and-abortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, how the Jews thought : Josephus (flourished 75-95 A.D.) “The [Jewish] Law orders all the offspring to be brought up, and forbids women either to cause abortion or to make away with the foetus; a woman convicted of this is regarded as an infanticide, because she destroys a soul and diminishes the race.” (Against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Last Judgment</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/on-the-last-judgment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/on-the-last-judgment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Last Judgment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Saint John Maximovitch &#34;&#8217;The end of the world&#8217; signifies not the annihilation of the world, but its transformation. Everything will be transformed suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye&#8230;. And the Lord will appear in glory on the clouds. Trumpets will sound, and loud, with power! They will sound in the soul and conscience! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we understand this word? WORSHIP</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/do-we-understand-this-word-worship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/do-we-understand-this-word-worship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Worship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by John Hamre &#160;&#160;&#160; The word I am referring to is worship.&#160; It is a word that is thrown about quite a bit these days, and sometimes I feel like Inigo Montoya from the movie The Princess Bride and want to say ‘you keep using that word.&#160; I do not think it means what you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Scripture and Tradition</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/introduction-to-scripture-and-tradition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/introduction-to-scripture-and-tradition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hermeneutics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Scripture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Archbishop Chrysostomos and Bishop] Auxentios There are, in the Orthodox Church, two ways of theology; two levels, as it were, at which the divine truth might be approached. The first of these, essential theology, proceeds out of the spirit of the Church, from the very experience of the God-bearing Fathers, who, in their theological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Orthodox Church and Starbucks (an analogy)</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/the-orthodox-church-and-starbucks-an-analogy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/the-orthodox-church-and-starbucks-an-analogy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Facebook group, some members were discussing the “unchangeable” nature of the Orthodox Church. One person actually responded by a youtube video saying that to claim that the Orthodox Church is “unchanging” is a “lie.” I submitted that the person didi not know what is meant by “unchanging” when it came to the Orthodox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Read the Bible</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/how-to-read-the-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/how-to-read-the-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holy Scripture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripture Helps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By St. Justin (Popovich) (Canonized as an Orthodox Saint in May 2010) The Bible is in a sense a biography of God in this world. In it the Indescribable One has in a sense described Himself. The Holy Scriptures of the New Testament are a biography of the incarnate God in this world. In them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G. K. Chesterton on the Weakness of Science</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/g-k-chesterton-on-the-weakness-of-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/09/g-k-chesterton-on-the-weakness-of-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creation & Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Limits of Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Sometimes something is so good it must be reposted – RAS] “Science is weak about these prehistoric things in a way that has hardly been noticed. The science whose modern marvels we all admire succeeds by incessantly adding to its data. In all practical inventions, in most natural discoveries, it can always increase evidence by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augustine, the Age of the Earth, and Macro-Evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/augustine-the-age-of-the-earth-and-macro-evolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/augustine-the-age-of-the-earth-and-macro-evolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I tried to show that Augustine held to the events of Genesis as literal and historical first, and secondly as allegorical (which he calls Prophetic) which was Christological and of obvious primary importance &#8212; BUT NOT in spite of or denial of the historical and literalness of the text. In other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Genesis: The Refutation of the Manichees&#8211;Augustine</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/on-genesis-the-refutation-of-the-manicheesaugustine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/on-genesis-the-refutation-of-the-manicheesaugustine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week I was told (and have been told before by others) that Augustine viewed the scriptural book of Genesis as “allegorical” and never as history or as literal events. My gut sent up a red flag. Now, in all honesty, I personally am not a big fan of Augustine and some Orthodox have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judaism Without Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/judaism-without-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/judaism-without-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judaism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon&#160; [this is so good it had to be reposted here – RAS] In his more than twenty scholarly books, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has certainly demonstrated his credentials as a bright light in contemporary Judaism. I value him especially as a sensible and irenic spokesman for Jewish self-understanding. In this respect, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About Evolutionism</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/about-evolutionism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/about-evolutionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creation & Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ioan Vladuca [A Romanian Orthodox Christian. I have yet to validate the statements but I concur with the thesis – RAS] The atheist evolutionism is the hypothesis that states that the species of animals turned one into another, from the first unicellular to the monkey and human being, in billions of years, through accidental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patriarch Photius Encyclical to the Eastern Patriarchs (866)</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/patriarch-photius-encyclical-to-the-eastern-patriarchs-866/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/patriarch-photius-encyclical-to-the-eastern-patriarchs-866/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Historical Tidbits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Patriarch Photius of Constantinople: Encyclical to the Eastern Patriarchs (866) Countless have been the evils devised by the cunning devil against the race of men, from the beginning up to the coming of the Lord. But even afterwards, he has not ceased through errors and heresies to beguile and deceive those who listen to him. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Holy Relics</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/on-holy-relics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/08/on-holy-relics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compiled by Maximus Scott In the God-Man, the Lord Christ, and His Body, all matter has been set on a path toward Christ —the path of deification, transfiguration, sanctification, resurrection, and ascent to an eternal glory surpassing that of the Cherubim. And all of this takes place and will continue to take place through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/07/what-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/07/what-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#34;If Christ is risen &#8211; then nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen &#8211; then nothing else matters.&#34; (Jaroslav Pelikan)]]></description>
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		<title>On Holy Chrism</title>
		<link>http://www.orthodox-christianity.com/2011/07/on-holy-chrism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maximus (Marlon) Scott Intro : In the Orthodox Church, Chrism (Greek χρίσμα, meaning &#34;ointment&#34;) is consecrated oil used during the administration of certain mysteries, particularly those of baptism and anointing of the sick (unction), and other rites of the Orthodox Church. Chrism is sometime referred to as myrrh (from the Greek μύρων), holy oil, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banning of Other Religions by Theodosius I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[reading about Byzantine History and thought this was interesting&#160; – RAS] Theodosian Code XVI.i.2 Although toleration was give to Christianity in 311CE by Constantine I, Christianity did not become the legal religion of the Roman Empire until the reign of Theodosius I (379-395). At that point not only was Christianity made the official religion of [...]]]></description>
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