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		<title>Marilynne Robinson&#8217;s &#8220;Absence of Mind&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/absence-of-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend you check out David Bentley Hart&#8217;s review of Marilynne Robinson&#8217;s book &#8220;Absence of Mind&#8221;. The literary talent behind Gilead, and Home (among others), and the keen mind behind The Death of Adam offers a published version of last years&#8217; Terry Lectures given at Yale University. With her discerning eye and broad scope &#8212; encompassing culture, science, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magnoliamountain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1036888&amp;post=539&amp;subd=magnoliamountain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Silouan on Nietzsche</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/st-silouan-on-nietzsche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Blessed Elder Sophrony Sakharov&#8217;s book St. Silouan the Athonite. (&#8220;Staretz&#8221; is a Russian term for a spiritual elder, and the term is used affectionately by Elder Sophrony for his mentor and spiritual father.) I remarked to the Staretz that there are people who interpret freedom from passion, not as love for God but as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magnoliamountain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1036888&amp;post=535&amp;subd=magnoliamountain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Purpose of Lent</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/the-purpose-of-lent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fr. Pat Reardon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fantastic sermon by Fr. Pat Reardon.  Though it was given at the beginning of Lent this year, it serves to put the Great Fast into perspective and to call us to repentance.  For that reason, it&#8217;s particularly apt for Holy Week. May we all prepare in anticipation of the victory of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magnoliamountain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1036888&amp;post=530&amp;subd=magnoliamountain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethics of Avatar</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/the-ethics-of-avatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently remembered that I meant to write something about Avatar.  The reason I forgot?  Well, its Avatar, how much time can you really spend thinking about it? When I saw the film I pretty much had the reaction I thought I would.  I was entertained, impressed by the special effects, annoyed by the stale [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magnoliamountain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1036888&amp;post=528&amp;subd=magnoliamountain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Vintage Church&#8221; vs. &#8220;Pagan Christianity&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/vintage-church-vs-pagan-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aforementioned review refers early and often to Methodist NT scholar Ben Witherington's responses, which are certainly worth the read.  He aptly takes on many of the falacious and provocative claims of the book, and replaces them with (gasp!) the historical truth that the ancient Church was a kind of institution. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magnoliamountain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1036888&amp;post=502&amp;subd=magnoliamountain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Might be a Calvinist if&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/you-might-be-a-calvinist-if/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;You name your dog Tulip. A co-worker of mine actually did this.  I wonder if she calls her &#8220;Totally Depraved&#8221; for short. Such a name must be fated.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magnoliamountain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1036888&amp;post=524&amp;subd=magnoliamountain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ruthie</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/ruthie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his usual frank and honest manner Dreher invited his readers to experience along with him pain, struggle, and lurking despair. Do yourself a favor: read all the posts in which he tagged his sister. Because pain, struggle, and lurking despair is not what this story is about.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magnoliamountain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1036888&amp;post=518&amp;subd=magnoliamountain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Take on McLaren</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/a-take-on-mclaren/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecumenicism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian McLaren]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I respect Milbank and Hart, I don't believe that they are the best to contrast against McLaren.  Certainly one could say the same about Luther, Calvin, Newman, and Chesterton.  One could say the same about Ben Witherington or Pope Benedict.  I'm tempted to say the same about Tim Keller. The contrast here is between the Church and McLaren's vision of the Church.
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		<title>Educating Narcissus</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/educating-narcissus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently posted on AOI is Bryan Smith&#8217;s essay on Christian education, &#8220;Educating Narcissus&#8221;.  Bryan is a friend, fellow parishioner, and a rare jewel in the educating community.  He is also the founder of the Orthodox School Association and headmaster of St. Peter&#8217;s Orthodox Classical School in Fort Worth, TX.  The school has the entire age-range of students, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magnoliamountain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1036888&amp;post=513&amp;subd=magnoliamountain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hope that Comes with Lent</title>
		<link>http://magnoliamountain.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/the-hope-that-comes-with-lent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Cone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Jonah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing struck me squarely from Metropolitan JONAH&#8217;s Archpastoral letter for the beginning of the Great Fast: Lent is a time for audacious hope. In his first paragraph he writes, We fast, we pray, we go to services, and we give alms. But what is different in us the very day after Pascha? Have we attained inner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magnoliamountain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1036888&amp;post=510&amp;subd=magnoliamountain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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