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	<title>AOI Observer &#187; secularism</title>
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		<title>Norm of faith as norm of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This essay is outstanding. It represents the quality of thought that should be coming from all Orthodox Churches; the words that speak to the foundational questions of culture as I wrote yesterday. Frankly, the Orthodox in America are capable of contributions of this depth and importance. I have my doubts however, that Constantinople will ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Culture is at risk of becoming anti-culture without the Church</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant! Met. Hilarion&#8217;s warning deals with what Nietzsche called the &#8220;transvaluation of values&#8221; &#8212; what his dark prophesy warned would happen in the West because &#8220;God is Dead,&#8221; by which he meant that Western culture was entering into a period where it functioned within the cultural structures shaped by Christianity but without concrete, existential communion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fr. Chad Hatfield: The Manhattan Declaration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ancient Faith Radio Fr. Chad Hatfield, discusses The Manhattan Declaration, &#8220;a call of Christian conscience&#8221; that he helped produce, and defends Orthodox participation in such cultural manifestos. Listen here: Download audio file (vsv_2010-02-17.mp3)]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Mohler: Vanishing Christianity — A Lesson from the Presbyterians</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AlbertMohler.com &#8220;Liberal Protestantism, in its determined policy of accommodation with the secular world, has succeeded in making itself dispensable.&#8221; That was the judgment of Thomas C. Reeves in The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Protestantism, published in 1996. Fast-forward another fourteen years and it becomes increasingly clear that liberal Protestantism continues its suicide &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patriarch Kirill &amp; Pope Benedict: A Tale of Two Leaders for a new Missionary Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been asked to become an Orthodox columnist on Catholic.org and accepted. Below is my first essay. Regular readers will notice ideas we discussed on the AOI Observer. +++++++++++++++++ Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) NAPLES, FL. (Catholic Online) &#8211; Over four decades ago Pope John Paul II said that the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishop Hilarion: The Church has been granted the Primate required by our troubled time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compare the vision expressed below with recurring missteps like Orphangate, the uncritical embrace of global warming activism, assertions of ethnic supremacy (Hellenism uber alles?), the flattering of politicians, and the like and ask yourself: &#8211;Who really gets it? &#8211;Who has the better grasp of the crisis in Western culture? &#8211;Who really comprehends that any resolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Orthodox Church opens seminary in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[H/T: Byzantine, TX The Russian Orthodox Church has opened its first seminary outside the former Soviet Union &#8211; in a small French town outside Paris. The institution is starting modestly but has big ambitions: to serve Russia&#8217;s growing diaspora and foster closer ties between Eastern and Western Christian churches. It is a bitterly cold afternoon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Europe, spiritual homeland&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2009/12/europe-spiritual-homeland/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=europe-spiritual-homeland</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2009/12/europe-spiritual-homeland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Couretas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;For Rome and Moscow, It&#8217;s Spring Again,&#8221; Sandro Magister on Chiesa looks at the book, in Italian and Russian, presented to Pope Benedict recently by Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk. It is a collection of the main speeches of Benedict, as cardinal and pope, on European culture made over the past ten years. The title [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Catholic-Orthodox Union?</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2009/09/a-catholic-orthodox-union/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-catholic-orthodox-union</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Couretas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We should all be extremely cautious about the recent comments about a Catholic-Orthodox union (Fr. Peter-Michael Preble has already raised important questions about these reports). Outside of the obvious and thorny theological questions – on both sides – that would arise, is there any way such a union could take place without first convening an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The god Called Earth</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2009/04/the-god-called-earth/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-god-called-earth</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Couples who refuse to have children in order to protect the environment, says Steve Robinson, &#8220;reject religion and dogma, (yet) their devotion to the earth is indeed a religious devotion very similar to the ancient pagans.&#8221; In fact, the &#8220;eco-fundamentalists has a version of the prosperity gospel… we &#8216;serve the earth god,&#8217; name it and [...]]]></description>
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