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	<title>In Communion</title>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: Winter 2008</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Mountains Beyond Mountains
	
by Tracy Kidder
Random House, 2003. 317 pp.
	Paul Farmer graduated from Harvard University with degrees in medicine and anthropology. Instead of following the usual paths expected of hyper-achievers, he and a few colleagues founded a clinic in central Haiti, where Farmer still spends half of his year, practicing medicine among some of the world’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations by email: Winter 2008</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[	
	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  or Jim Forest .
	Fr. Sophrony’s conquest of England: Here is a wonderful story I came upon in a book by Archimandrite Zacharias, The Enlargement of the Heart (Mount Thabor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News:  Winter 2008 / issue 48</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	
	
	New Jersey’s repeal of executions
	In December, New Jersey governor Jon Corzine signed into law a measure that abolishes the death penalty, making New Jersey the first US state in more than four decades to reject capital punishment.
		In a letter addressed to Governor Corzine, Metropolitan Evangelos, bishop of all Greek Orthodox Christians in the Mid-Atlantic States, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living on the Wrong Side of the Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Maria C. Khoury
	
	The other side of a 27-foot wall is not a place I imagined I would be when I started my middle class family in Boston. In those days, we were going to hockey games to make sure we were keeping up with the Americans and Greek School to keep up with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Barrier Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Alexander Patico
	
	One of the sources of Arab discontentment has been the erection of the “Defensive Wall,” as Israelis call it, separating parts of the West Bank from other parts, and creating hardships for those, both Christian and Muslim, who reside and work in the areas thus fractured. For example, the 170,000 residents of Bethlehem, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Adam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Frederica Mathewes-Green

Last summer we had a houseful at the beach, with our children and their spouses and the seven (soon to be nine) little grandchildren. The cousins don’t see each other much, so they splashed and ran and shouted, the wind tearing at their voices. But Adam, then four, stayed by himself. He moved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boundaries and Bridges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Mother Raphaela
	Most of us have heard the proverb “Good fences make good neighbors.”

	Concern for boundaries is ancient and not confined to human beings. Animals, too, set up territories for themselves with boundaries they may even defend to the death. The sense of “boundaries that cannot be passed” is a Biblical theme as well. Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanderings and Wonderings About Women and Walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	By Demetra Velisarios Jaquet
	
	The common purpose of the Eucharistic community is to listen and respond with gratitude, love and obedience to God’s call to holiness.
		God created the first human community, Adam and Eve, who through disobedience separated themselves from God and ushered in an era of fallen human nature, where discord and blame cause men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Original Oneness of Adam &#038; Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Jim Forest
	While browsing in our parish bookshop not long ago, I happened to notice in a rack of cards a reproduction of an image of Eve being lifted by Christ out of Adam’s body – a colorful miniature that comes from a 13th-century illuminated manuscript. Adam sleeps peacefully while Eve is wide awake. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	
	Robert Frost wrote, “Good fences make good neighbors.” It is an old proverb, which embodies an agrarian respect for one’s fellows and their rights of property. But Frost was not providing guidance to his readers when he included the line in his poem, “Mending Wall.” He began the poem, in fact, by saying, “Something there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations by email: Fall 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	
	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 markp [at] earlham.edu or Jim Forest ]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations by email: Fall 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	

	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 markp [at] earlham.edu or Jim Forest ]]></description>
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		<title>News:  Fall 2007 / issue 47</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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	Stalin’s victims honored in emotional memorial
	The Russian Orthodox Church marked the 70th anniversary of the bloodiest peak of Josef Stalin’s terror with a procession that began from a remote northern island archipelago that became the prison camp immortalized in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s world famous book, The Gulag Archipelago.

		The procession ended in August on the edge of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strengthening Fundamental Values</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	By Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and All Albania
	
	Archbishop Anastasios with Albanian children
	The Christians of Europe have a obligation to support the spiritual values that were born among them and in expressing their inner, deeper meaning. I would like to point out a few of these basic values.
		The enhancement of any person’s dignity as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Marcellus: Military Martyr</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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	[Photo: The relics of St. Marcellus are preserved within the altar of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana.]
	In the ancient Roman Empire, many Christians refused to serve in the imperial armies, finding it was in conflict with their baptismal vows and the teaching and example of Jesus.
		In The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Up the Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by St. Maria Skobtsova
	
	Cross-bearing Theotokos painted by St. Maria Skobtsova of Paris

	We must seek authentic and profound religious bases in order to understand and justify our yearning for man, our love of man, our path among our brothers, among people.
		And warnings sound from two different sides. On one side, the humanistic world, even as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Your Enemies As Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Jim Forest
	
But I say to you,
love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
– Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:44)
	
	[illustration: Slaughter of the Innocents; Illuminated Bible, Monastery of St. Bertin, France, created ca 1200, National Library of the Netherlands]
	Passenger planes taken by terrorists fly into the two towers of the World Trade Center; the buildings collapse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: The Next Evil Empire?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Alex Patico
	
	Children playing at the Fin Garden in Kashan, Iran. photo by Tilo Driessen
	To us in the West, Iran has been known as a place of ancient trade routes, exotic images and romantic poetry, and more recently as a place of religious and political movements that we struggle to understand. The road to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. John Chrysostom, Almsgiving, and Persons with Disability</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Ephrem Gall

	St. John Chrysostom, having sought the face of God through the strictest forms of asceticism in the mountains near Antioch, only to find his health fail in the process, returned to the city. He rose through the deaconate of service to the poor to the priesthood, where his gift for preaching made him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Protection  of the Mother of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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The account of the appearance is to be found in the Life of St. Andrew “the Fool in Christ” (died 956). It is at the church of Blachernes [in Constantinople], where the robe, the veil and part of the girdle of the Holy Virgin are preserved, that the appearance occurred. During the office of the [...]]]></description>
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