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		<title>Recommended Reading Winter 2010</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1752</link>
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Beginnings
by Peter Bouteneff
Baker Academic
256 pages, $23
The question of the origin of humankind and the cosmos has perhaps never been so hotly debated as nowadays, with “evolution” and “creationism” presenting themselves as polar opposites. In this fine book, Peter Bouteneff presents a carefully researched and scholarly reading of early Christian readings of the creation account in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coversations by email: Winter 2010</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1750</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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These are extracts from recent postings to the OPF’s e-mail discussion list. If you are an OPF member and wish to take part, contact Mark Pear-son &#60;markp 0at) earlham.edu&#62; or Jim Forest &#60;jhforest (at) gmail.com&#62;.
Fellowship of St. Maria: St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin has launched a “Fellowship of St. Maria of Paris” to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News: Winter 2010</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1748</link>
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Moscow Patriarchate  opposes death penalty
In October, the Moscow Patriarchate called on Russia to abstain from executions. “Certainly, it’s better not to practice the death penalty,” Arch­priest Vsevo­lod Chaplin told reporters in Mos­cow. “If society is strong enough to secure itself from criminality and evil will, it can be merciful to criminals and not deprive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Experience of Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1746</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Steven Tsichlis




In September 2000, at the turn of the third millennium, 25 parishioners from St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church and St. John Neu­mann’s Roman Catholic Church in Irvine, California, began gathering month­ly for a Christian book club that has provided an opportunity to pray and study together, to explore our common roots in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Peace, Not War</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1744</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Fr. Philip LeMasters
There is no question that we Orthodox Christians would prefer to make peace instead of war, but even in the context of Christian ethics, it is difficult to shift the categories of discussion from “just war” to “just peace.” Unfortunately, like so many others, we too are in the habit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peacemaking as Mission</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1742</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Forest

The Beatitudes include the words, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” Christ himself bears witness to what peacemaking looks like. He sought out both those who were drawn to him and were threatened by him. We see his love of enemies in his readiness to respond to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patriarch Pavle:A Saint Who Walked</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1740</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Danny Abbott

Orthodox Christians lost a fearless bishop with the death November 15 of Patriarch Pavle, long-time lea­der of the Serbian Orthodox Church. A man of exceptional humility and a tireless voice for peace in the Balkans, he was widely regarded by his fellow Serbs and many others as a living saint.
Born Gojko Stojcević in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Knows There’s Need</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1738</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Taylor

Susan Holman is a scholar of the social justice tradition in the early church. Her new book is God Knows There’s Need: Christian Responses to Poverty (Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press). She also wrote The Hungry are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cap­pa­docia.
Holman, a research writer and editor at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Mercy and Justice</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1736</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by St. Basil the Great (or a follower)

The following text, often attributed to St. Basil the Great, is now regarded by some scholars as the work of one of Basil’s followers. This translation is the work of C. Paul Schroeder and is included in his collection of St. Basil’s writings On Social Justice, newly published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘I Was in Need and You Helped Me’</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1734</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fr. Justin Mathews

God calls us to share in His love, a love which expresses itself in acts of compassion for all who are broken-hearted and in need. In doing this, we become God’s own hands. Such practical service changes lives and transforms our world, one person at a time.
Participation in God’s compassion is more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch with Mother Maria</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1732</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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by Bev Cooke


It’s time for lunch! Deacon Kevin grabs a sack of sandwiches. The rest of us grab the table and boxes of drinks, granola bars and fresh fruit, then truck them over to the tree on Harris Green. People start moving toward us even before we’ve set up the table. I see Anthony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiveness and healing­</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1730</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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To forgive does not mean to forget what has happened, but to shoulder the weight of another person’s frailty or even another person’s evil. St. Paul says, “Learn to carry one another’s burdens.” These bur­dens are often the failure of each of us to be worthy of our calling – our incapacity to love one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear In Communion reader,</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1728</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear In Communion reader,
This first issue of the year 2010 makes a special link with St. Basil the Great, one of the towering figures of fourth-century Christianity, a saint who not only helped lay the theological foundations of Orthodox Christianity, but also provided an astonishing model of what love of neighbor involves.
Down though the centuries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: Fall 2009</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1693</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hidden Holiness
by Michael Plekon
University of Notre Dame Press, $25
A poem by Matthew Brown that introduces the first chapter to Fr. Michael&#8217;s text reveals a &#8220;bottom-up&#8221; approach to holiness, which understands that the kenosis of Christ altered forever the fabric of the creation and raised humanity into God. In like manner, Brown&#8217;s poem portrays faithful people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations by email: Fall 2009</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1686</link>
		<comments>http://incommunion.org/?p=1686#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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These are extracts from recent postings to the OPF’s e-mail discussion list. If you are an OPF member and wish to take part, contact Mark Pearson &#60;markp@earlham.edu&#62; or Jim Forest &#60;jhforest@gmail.com&#62;.
Fervent supplication: Here is a petition for possible inclusion in the Liturgy during the Litany of Fervent Supplication. It is intended for use in Orthodox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News: Fall 2009</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1675</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Patriarch Kirill visits Ukraine

A ten-day trip to Ukraine by Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church included visits to a monument to victims of the Stalin-era famine, a liturgy that drew thousands to the scenic but tense Crimean peninsula, and a pilgrimage to Pochaev, one of the most important monasteries in the Orthodox Church. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patristic reflections:  Not an eye for an eye but love of enemies</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1669</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any one would sue you and take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Identity and the Search for Unity</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1662</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Archbishop Makarios of Kenya

Despite many areas of progress, the past century has been the most brutal age in the history of humanity. What is most shocking about the many conflicts is that it is not the combatants who were the main victims, but rather the most vulnerable members of society – children, women, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On God and Justice</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1656</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Stephen Freeman

There are many who imagine theologically that at some later point, a final judgment, God’s justice, will be manifest. In this manifestation of justice, the punishments of hell figure prominently. Of course, this is simply poor theology. Eternity in hell is not a matter of justice nor can it ever be. Justice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adam, Where Are You?</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1649</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on Adam, Christ, and Us
by Peter Bouteneff

Many think about Adam and Eve from the perspective of debates about the age of the universe and the origin of human beings. The Church Fathers and the liturgy have a completely different starting point, less in terms of cosmology than Christology. The Church rarely mentions Adam without [...]]]></description>
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