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	<title>AOI Observer &#187; Culture</title>
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		<title>A grand slam and no hitter &#8212; all in the same game!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matt Garza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to see the Tampa Bay Rays today, my first ball game in a very long time. Great game. Pitcher Matt Garza threw a no hitter, and Matt Joyce hit a grand slam. Nice. Sorry Detroit fans. Garza Pitches Fifth No-Hitter of Season in First for Tampa Bay]]></description>
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		<title>Tulsa World: Speaker didn&#8217;t reflect the church&#8217;s views</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Schaeffer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George C. Michalopulos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Tulsa World By: GEORGE C. MICHALOPULOS Recently, the Tulsa Interfaith Council sponsored an appearance by Frank Schaeffer. I had the pleasure of attending one of Frank&#8217;s lectures. As a fellow Orthodox Christian it&#8217;s always good to see Frank. Whether you agree with him or not, you know you&#8217;re in for a good and lively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mattingly: Shocking words to the Presbyterians</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terry Mattingly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Source: The Republic Anyone who attends one of the national church assemblies that dot the calendar every summer knows that they are highly ritualized affairs. Officers will be elected. Political issues will be discussed. Lofty resolutions will be passed. At least one long business session will include a proposal about clergy benefits and salaries. [...] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the Balance: Privacy and the Civil Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fr. Gregory Jensen, contributing editor to AOI blog and editor of Koinonia blog recently published this essay on the Acton Institute website. Privacy in our culture has come to serve not a deepening of community life but an ever deeper sense of social isolation.&#160; Even otherwise laudable behavior is increasingly justified not by the goodness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mattingly on Fr. Siarhei Hardun, the Presbyterian Assembly, and the press</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fr. Siarhei Hardun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Mattingly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist Terry Mattingly edits the blog &#8220;Get Religion&#8221; which examines religion in the media. The blog is a great read and worth a (repeating) look. A few excepts from Mattingly&#8217;s commentary on Fr. Hardun&#8217;s recent comments at the Presbyterian assembly (see: MINNEAPOLIS: Presbyterian gay measures criticized by visiting (Orthodox) priest): As you would expect, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MINNEAPOLIS: Presbyterian gay measures criticized by visiting (Orthodox) priest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Homosexual activism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[HT: Virtue Online July 09, 2010 An Orthodox Church theologian who was invited to greet the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has criticized its approval of non-celibate gay and lesbian clergy. The Reverend Siarhei Hardun of Belarus said that vote and efforts to approve gay marriage looked to him like an attempt to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Founding an Orthodox Liberal Arts and Sciences College</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Papatheofanis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Katherine College]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Allen interviews Dr. Frank Papatheofanis, President of the new St. Katherine College, about what it takes to start an Orthodox liberal arts and sciences college. Listen here: Download audio file (ih_2010-07-09.mp3)]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom of religion devolves to an &#8220;anorexic freedom of worship&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/07/freedom-of-religion-devolves-to-an-anorexic-freedom-of-worship-2/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=freedom-of-religion-devolves-to-an-anorexic-freedom-of-worship-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/07/freedom-of-religion-devolves-to-an-anorexic-freedom-of-worship-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christianity Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuch Colson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of "worship"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Weigel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[religious freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Colson sounds the alarm about a shift in US policy first noticed by The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in its 2010 annual report. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton replaced the term &#8220;freedom of religion&#8221; with &#8220;freedom of worship&#8221; in a December, 2009 speech at Georgetown University. President Obama first used &#8220;freedom of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praying for Christopher Hitchens</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/07/praying-for-christopher-hitchens/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=praying-for-christopher-hitchens</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/07/praying-for-christopher-hitchens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[George Michalopulos sent this piece along that offers a prayer for Christopher Hitchens, one of the more well known &#8220;New Atheists.&#8221; I&#8217;m not a Hitchens basher although I&#8217;m a Hitchens critic, (i.e.: How can anyone really believe that Troskyite Marxism is defensible?). I&#8217;ve listened to some of the debates between Hitchens and Dinesh D&#8217;Souza and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HuffPo Writer Also Wants to Eradicate Limbaugh, Beck, and O&#8217;Reilly</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/06/huffpo-writer-also-wants-to-eradicate-limbaugh-beck-and-oreilly/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=huffpo-writer-also-wants-to-eradicate-limbaugh-beck-and-oreilly</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/06/huffpo-writer-also-wants-to-eradicate-limbaugh-beck-and-oreilly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Schaeffer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to give Frank Schaeffer the benefit of the doubt and have been patient with his forays into the senseless (yes, bereft of good sense) moral posturing of the left thinking that he might moderate after he saw that the best he could hope for was a paternalistic tolerance a step or two above [...]]]></description>
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