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		<title>That pole is in the way</title>
		<link>http://kevinburt.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/that-pole-is-in-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday during Orthros, I looked across the nave of our small mission from the chanter&#8217;s stand while someone else was chanting for a moment.  My gaze rested on an icon of Christ, which was annoyingly partially obstructed by one of two metal poles in the middle of our mission which holds up the building.
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		<title>Three Giants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Writings from the Philokalia: on Prayer of the Heart, a story is recounted of Abba Mark in which he instructed his spiritual son, Nicholas, on how to overcome the passions.    There are &#8220;three giants&#8221; in the heart, according to Abba Mark, which must be conquered:

forgetfulness
laziness
ignorance

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		<title>Christos se rodi!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christos se rodi!  Vaistinu se rodi!
A merry Christmas to all our Serbian brethren, many of whom we have had the pleasure of meeting and communing with here in southern Kentucky!
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		<title>Science and Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following story reported on CNN.com was, well, flabbergasting.  I know, I know, it shouldn&#8217;t surprise me.  But sometimes, the inanity of the modern mind&#8217;s &#8220;scientific&#8221; hubris (or possibly the inanity of the journalist writing the story) can still be enough to overcome a jaw so inured by the same as to rarely drop&#8230;
&#8220;Scientists:  True [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinburt.wordpress.com&blog=198654&post=749&subd=kevinburt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Picture of our iconostasis at Holy Nativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We acquired an old space of 2800 square feet at the beginning of November.  It had been used by a religious group before, but was not designed with an Orthodox Church in mind at all.  Here is a picture of the old &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; used by the previous group before we did anything with it:

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		<title>My absence</title>
		<link>http://kevinburt.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/my-absence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends,
I&#8217;ve given up blogging before, only to return later.  My recent decline in postings, however, has been due to the formation of our new Orthodox Mission in Bowling Green, KY.   Holy Apostles Orthodox Mission was begun by His Grace, Bishop MARK of Toledo (Antiochian North American Archdiocese) a few months ago, and we have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinburt.wordpress.com&blog=198654&post=735&subd=kevinburt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real Hope, Orthodox Style</title>
		<link>http://kevinburt.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/real-hope-orthodox-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw this over at Paradosis.   Gave me a nice chuckle this evening.
&#8220;Change we can REALLY hope in.&#8221;  Indeed, axios to the new Metropolitan JONAH!  Many years!

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		<title>Of debates and knights errant</title>
		<link>http://kevinburt.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/of-debates-and-knights-errant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched a bit of the first debate held tonight in Oxford, MS.  Honestly, I struggled between granting my limited attention span after a long day at work alternatingly to Miguel de Cervantes and Jim Lehrer.  Granted, both senators addressed by said narrator themelves addressed matters of uncontrovertibly momentous importance, but, hey, our knight errant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinburt.wordpress.com&blog=198654&post=726&subd=kevinburt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Recommendation: on Calvinism</title>
		<link>http://kevinburt.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/book-recommendation-on-calvinism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to recommend a couple of books that I have read&#8230; one recently, one a year or so ago, both by the same author, Dr. Robert Shank.  Dr. Shank was, as I understand it, formerly a Baptist, but entered the First Christian Church later in life after being castigated by much of the Reformed-leaning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinburt.wordpress.com&blog=198654&post=722&subd=kevinburt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two beds, two people, two risings: today&#8217;s Gospel</title>
		<link>http://kevinburt.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/two-beds-two-people-two-risings-todays-gospel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Gospel, Mark 1:29-35:
At that time, Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon&#8217;s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him of her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her; and she served them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinburt.wordpress.com&blog=198654&post=718&subd=kevinburt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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