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		<title>Christian Soldiers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Alex Patico

Returnees from Iraq and Afghanistan

A recent issue of the University of Minnesota&#8217;s alumni magazine noted that over five hundred of that university&#8217;s current students are veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan. The U&#8217;s Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (named for a public servant whose career may have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=908</link>
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		<title>Orthodox Peace Fellowship letter to the Patriarchs of Russia and Georgia</title>
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The Orthodox Peace Fellowship, an association of Orthodox believers seeking to apply the principles of the Gospel to situations of division and conflict, has written to the leaders of the Orthodox Churches in Russia and Georgia to express support of their recent efforts first to prevent war and then to bring about a cease fire.
&#8220;What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=836</link>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: Summer 2008</title>
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His Broken Body
by Fr. Laurent Cleenewerck
Euclid University Consortium Press; 438 pages, $33.50
Not often is a book published which has the potential to serve as a catalyst for history-making events. His Broken Body: Understanding and Healing the Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians may have that potential. Certainly it will make a book that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=765</link>
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		<title>Conversations by email: Summer 2008</title>
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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 (markp@earlham.edu) or Jim Forest (jhforest@gmail.com).
Obeying God rather than man: The claim is sometimes made that somehow those who are “decent” are those who are “law abiding.” But in such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=753</link>
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		<title>News: Summer 2008</title>
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Belarus pressures Orthodox  not to venerate martyrs 
Belarus is discouraging the commemoration of Orthodox Christians killed for their faith by the Soviet Union, according to a report issued in May by Forum 18. The Belarussian KGB sought to have icons of the New Martyrs removed from the cathedral in Grodno.
New Martyr St. Pavlin, Bishop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=742</link>
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		<title>Death: A Second Baptism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Patrick Radley


“I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, “Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” – Luke 12:19-20

Do we not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=735</link>
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		<title>Orthodox-Muslim Relations: The Search for Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Hilary Kilpatrick

The Way, the Truth and the Life”: if we believe that Christ is all these things, we must seek to avoid falsehoods, in personal but also in public life. To lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was not just politically misguided or un-ethical, it was un-Christian.
	Many of the antagonisms which lead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=730</link>
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		<title>A Brief Guide  for Christian-Muslim Dialogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Theodore Pulcini

Christianity and Islam share much common ground. Both trace their roots to Abraham. Both believe in prophecy, God’s messengers (apostles), revelation, scripture, the resurrection of dead, and the centrality of religious community. Despite these similarities, however, these two religions have significant differences which we need to be aware of, as true dialogue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=718</link>
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		<title>Hospitality and Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Nancy Forest

When I was growing up, hospitality was something that had a ring of social class to it. It suggested entertaining at home, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and leisure wear — a lifestyle of “gracious living” that my parents, shy people of modest means, did not share. Even today, we tend to think of money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=709</link>
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		<title>Calling Governments to Account</title>
		<description><![CDATA[an interview with Fr. Meletios Webber

[Photo: Fr. Meletios witnessing the confession of a young member of the parish of St. Nicholas of Myra Russian Orthodox Church in Amsterdam.]
Archimandrite Meletios Webber was born in London and received his Masters degree in theology from Oxford University in England and the Thessalonica School of Theology in Greece. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=703</link>
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		<title>The Liturgy after the Liturgy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Irina von Schlippe

[caption: Three of the works of mercy (giving drink to the thirsty, visiting the prisoner, clothing the naked) as depicted in a large Romanesque icon of the Last Judgment. It was painted in the second half of the 12th century for the oratory of St. Gregory Nazianzen near Santa Maria in Campo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=697</link>
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		<title>Fifty issues of In Communion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Forest

“Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad.” The Jews then said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
— John 5:56-58
In Communion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=689</link>
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		<title>Saints Cosmas and Damian:  Holy Unmercenaries, martyrs at Rome (284)</title>
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Saints called unmercenaries are physicians who offered their healing services while refusing any payment and who, since their repose, continue to heal by their prayers those who call on them in faith.
There are three pairs of unmercenary physicians named Cosmas and Damian. The martyrs associated with Rome, shown with Peter and Paul in the mosaic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=671</link>
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		<title>In Communion Summer 2008</title>
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[above: A mosaic icon in the apse of the Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Rome. St. Paul is to the left of Christ, St. Peter to the right, with Sts. Cosmas and Damian on either side, identical because they are twins. The church and the mosaic date from the sixth century. Double-click on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=619</link>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: Pascha / Spring 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Orthodox Study Bible
Thomas Nelson, 1824 pp, $50
I’ve been looking at the new Orthodox Study Bible, which now includes the Old and New Testaments. Here are my first impressions.
  New Testament: I was a bit apprehensive about this project, since I had found the earlier edition (which only included the New Testament and Psalms) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=618</link>
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		<title>Conversations by email: Pascha / Spring 2008</title>
		<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 .
Letter from Pakistan: I want to thank all OPF members who, during the Nativity Fast, contributed funds to Orthodox Social Services in Pakistan to help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=617</link>
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		<title>News: Pascha / Spring 2008</title>
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Moscow Patriarchate urges courage, patience to Kosovan Serbs
“We share the grief and sufferings of Serbian people who are deprived of a historic part of their country connected with the history of their spiritual, cultural and national life,” said Metropolitan Kirill, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations at a press conference in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=616</link>
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		<title>Saying Yes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Nancy Forest
 
These are extracts from a journal Nancy started keeping a week before donating a kidney to her husband, Jim.
October 24: What goes into making a decision like this, to offer a vital organ to someone?
	It took me a long time. Several years ago, when Jim first learned that dialysis was in his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=615</link>
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		<title>Fr. David Kirk’s Legacy of Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Julia and Albert Raboteau

Fr. David Kirk, founder of Emmaus House in New York City’s Harlem, died last year on May 23 at the age of 72. His life was dedicated to service to the poor, to racial justice, and to the homeless. Toward the end of his life, after many years a Catholic priest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=614</link>
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		<title>Consider Today’s Lily</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Cranford Joseph Coulter

Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Luke 12:27)
Idelight in daylilies. We have about a half dozen varieties in our backyard. They are so amazing! They produce enormous, brilliantly colored blossoms. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=613</link>
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