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		<title>Recommended Reading: Pascha / Spring 2008</title>
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		<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>
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		<title>Conversations by email: Pascha / Spring 2008</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/articles/previous-issues/conversations-by-email-pascha-spring-2008</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 19:34:10 +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  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>
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		<title>News: Pascha / Spring 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 18:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<title>Saying Yes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Fr. David Kirk’s Legacy of Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Consider Today’s Lily</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Removing the Wall Between Mary &#038; Martha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Mother Raphaela
	
	Vermeer’s painting of Mary and Martha with Christ
	Again and again during the year we hear the story of the sisters Mary and Martha being visited by Jesus. While Mary sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching, Martha was busy in the kitchen. Finally she went to him and said, “Lord, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding the Church’s opposition to capital punishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Fr. Ted Bobosh
	
Any pastor living in a country in which executions are still carried out is likely to be asked why the Orthodox Church throughout the world has for so many centuries opposed, and still opposes, the death penalty. It is all the more confusing to many Christians because the death penalty is sanctioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sunday of Forgiveness in Nairobi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	by Emmanuel Kashoke
	
	Holding the future in their hands and hearts, these youngsters who attend St. George Orthodox School in Kibera, just outside of Nairobi, will see the example of people like Fr. Makarios whose challenge to forgive will overcome tribal tensions through the love and witness of Christ.

	It was a busy but lovely Sunday – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pascha greeting in Stalin’s Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	 
	Nicholas Arseniev recounts an event that occurred in Russia, one that is quite characteristic of the faith of the Russian people. 
		During a public conference held in Moscow at the Polytechnic Museum during the fierce repression of believers, a Bolshevik commissioner in charge of education violently attacked the “out-dated faith” of the people, crying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: Winter 2008</title>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/articles/previous-issues/recommended-reading-winter-2008</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/articles/previous-issues/conversations-by-email-winter-2008</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:26:22 +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  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>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/articles/previous-issues/news-winter-2008-issue-48</link>
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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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