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		<title>Dear In Communion reader, June 2009</title>
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Dear In Communion reader,
It always surprises me, for a journal of so modest a size, how much we
manage to get into it. It’s a bit like Holland, small but densely populated.
Walking home this morning, having left the paper edition of In Communion
with the printer, I thought about the longest piece in this issue, a
selection of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1571</link>
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		<title>Recommended Reading Spring 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Palestinian Christian
Cry for Reconciliation
By Naim Stifan Ateek
Orbis Books, 224 pp, $24
Fr. Naim Ateek has played a major role in promoting Palestinian nonviolent resistance. Rejecting the misuse of scripture by both Jewish and Christian Zionists, his book offers helpful insights to biblical texts that help sustain Palestinian Christians, descendants of the first Christians.
The book may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1553</link>
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		<title>Conversations by email: Spring 2009</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 &#60;markp@earlham.edu&#62; or Jim Forest &#60;jhforest@gmail.com&#62;.
Fear of the other: Thomas Merton wrote that fear is the root of war. If fear becomes our primary way of looking at things, if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1547</link>
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		<title>News: Spring 2009</title>
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Albania urged to return religious property
Europe’s association of Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant churches has called on Albania to return all religious property seized from religious communities during 46 years of Communist rule that followed the Second World War.
“Even after 18 years of democracy, much of the property confiscated under Communism still has to be returned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1539</link>
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		<title>Letter from Damascus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the invitation of the Grand Mufti of Damascus, during the last week of April Archbishop Lazar Puhalo was in Syria to represent the Orthodox Peace Fellowship in a Christian-Islamic “Conversation.”  Here is his report:

Archbishop Lazar and monastery cat. Photo by Jim Forest
Our small group included various Canadian Christians plus several members of the Islamic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1530</link>
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		<title>Three days in August</title>
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Yeltsin on a tank in front of the Parliament Building on August 19th, 1991
On August 19, 1991, two months after Boris Yeltsin’s election as president of Russia, a junta led by KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov made a nearly-successful effort to suppress the democratic movement that had emerged during the Gorbachev years. The junta announced formation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1524</link>
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		<title>The Kiss of Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Alexander Schmemann

We go to church for love, for the new love of Christ himself, which is granted to us in our unity. We go to church so that this divine love will again and again be “poured into our hearts,” so that again and again we may “put on love,” so that constituting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1516</link>
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		<title>A Bishop who  Stood in the Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Forest

In 1941, after a period of neutrality, Bulgaria allied itself with Nazi Germany. This was a decision partly motivated by the Bulgarian government’s wish to regain neighboring territories that it had lost in previous wars. Early in 1943, the government in Sofia signed a secret agreement with the Nazis to deport 20,000 Jews. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1510</link>
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		<title>The Beatitudes:  a selection of  Patristic Comments</title>
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Christ calling Peter and Andrew. Duccio 14th Century
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
St. Hilary of Arles: The Lord taught by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1503</link>
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		<title>The Pitiable Ahab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Fr. Michael Gillis

But if it is you who … have to sit in judgment on someone … pray to the Lord to give you a tender heart, which the Lord loves, and your judgment will then be sound; but if you judge purely according to deeds, there will be errors in your judgment, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1495</link>
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		<title>As God Wills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mother Raphaela Wilkinson

Mother Raphaela Wilkinson of the Holy Myrrhbearers’ Monastery with her team of oxen used in plowing the fields. Photo by Joshua Coolman
It is possible to be a member of the Orthodox Church, graduate from a seminary, perhaps even be a member of the clergy or other full-time Church professional, and not believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1485</link>
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		<title>I Love,  Therefore I Am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Metropolitan Kallistos Ware

Most of the time we think we know who we are. But do we, in fact, know in the full and profound sense who we are?
One text that is very important for the Orthodox understanding of the human person is Psalm 64:6 [LXX 63:7]: “The heart is deep.” That means the human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1478</link>
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		<title>The Mystery of the Present Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We can only meet God in the present moment. This is an area where God chooses to place limits on His own power. We choose whether or not to live in the present moment. Because we can encounter God only in that present moment, whenever we live in the past or in the future, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1472</link>
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		<title>re “10 Questions”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A response to the questions posed by Fr Hans Jacobse in this memo “10 Questions To Ask When Orthodox Peace Fellowship Visits Your Parish”

note: the original text by Fr. Hans Jacobse is posted on the Orthodoxy Today web site at:
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/JacobseOPFQuestions.shtml

>> In the document &#8220;A Plea for Peace,&#8221; OPF posits a doctrine of moral equivalence when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1393</link>
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		<title>Conversations by email: Winter 2009</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 &#60;markp@earlham.edu&#62; or Jim Forest &#60;jhforest@gmail.com&#62;.
 
Death of a Patriarch: Patriarch Aleksy II has died. Long live his soul in Heaven! He was a very good patriarch who served as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1304</link>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: Winter 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Living Body of Christ
by Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
Darton, Longman &#38; Todd, 235pp. £10.95
Metropolitan Anthony does not offer a systematic treatise on the nature of the Church. Instead, we see multifaceted views of the Church, as if through a kaleidoscope. The book is a compilation of talks, lectures and letters which required consideration of different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1315</link>
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		<title>Advice on Peacemaking from the Saints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A selection of challenging quotations for meditation assembled by Alexander Patico, secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship in North America

First Century
For he is our peace, who has made us both [Jew and Gentile] one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility. &#8230; He came and preached peace to you who were far off and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1284</link>
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		<title>Corporatism or Commonweal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

This is the rule of the most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good, for nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for his neighbors. – St. John Chrysostom
The concept of the “common good” has fallen out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1273</link>
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		<title>May Christians Kill?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fr. Philip LeMasters

Eastern Christianity does not view morality in fundamentally legal terms or within the context of abstract philosophy, but as part of the holistic vocation of humanity for theosis: participation by grace in the eternal life of the Holy Trinity. Hence, the Orthodox vision must be considered on its own terms, and not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1266</link>
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		<title>The Muddle that is the Middle East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Alexander Patico

These days, we Christians have a reputation often based on our prejudices rather than our principles, our irritations with our neighbors rather than our love of neighbor. As the Orthodox columnist Terry Mattingly recently put it, Christians “are known best for what they are against.” We were once known for how well we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://incommunion.org/?p=1258</link>
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