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	<title>This Side of Glory</title>
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	<description>Standing with the Orthodox Christian Church seems like more and more it means standing against the world's culture. Wanna come along?</description>
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		<title>Daring to hope in spring</title>
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Well, well. It is March, after all.

You wouldn&#8217;t have known it a week ago. The last snow made everything look rather bleak and Antarctic (if I can make up an adjective). But when you least expected it, the temperatures crept upwards. As I let Clementine into the back yard, I began to notice spots of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brittle glass of politeness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happened to read two interesting takes on the whole concept of good manners, and it underscores something I&#8217;ve thought modern, &#8220;civilized&#8221; people should always keep in mind: We&#8217;re skating on thin ice if we&#8217;re relying on Niceness to keep us out of trouble.

In &#8220;Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior,**&#8221; author and social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.this-side-of-glory.com/archives/the-brittle-glass-of-politeness/</link>
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		<title>Evidence that supports Biblical accounts is never news (apparently)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to be clear, when someone posits in a work of fiction that Christ had a family, it spins off a mega-million dollar global discussion. When someone rediscovers an ancient work of Gnostic literature, National Geographic makes sure to do a big presentation of this &#8220;new gospel&#8221; in time for Easter.
But when archaeologists uncover fortifications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.this-side-of-glory.com/archives/evidence-that-reinforces-christianity-is-never-news-apparently/</link>
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		<title>Lenten thought about what&#8217;s good and bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the quote today in &#8220;Daily Lives **&#8221; and I thought it was pretty appropriate as we get a little further into Lent:
Nothing done in humility for the sake of God is bad. But things and pursuits differ. Everything not strictly necessary is a hindrance to salvation &#8212; everything, that is to say, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.this-side-of-glory.com/archives/lenten-thought-about-whats-good-and-bad/</link>
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		<title>About Avatar (part 2): Fake versions of us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last point about Avatar I wanted to make: Movie-makers have had a lot of fun blurring the lines between the real world and artificial worlds. Only recently have they been doing the same thing with real and artificial selves. And I think there&#8217;s a reason for that. Only in the age of online communities and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.this-side-of-glory.com/archives/about-avatar-part-2-fake-versions-of-us/</link>
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		<title>About Avatar (part 1): Cultural comfort food artfully served</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw &#8220;Avatar&#8221; two weeks ago, and some observations about it stay with me  &#8212; some things it was trying to say, some things it did say, and the differential between the two.
(Two quick caveats: 1 - This will include spoilers. 2 - I&#8217;m not sure it will make sense if you haven&#8217;t seen the movie.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.this-side-of-glory.com/archives/about-avatar-part-1-cultural-comfort-food-artfully-served/</link>
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		<title>They go to church in Mississippi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via the Orthodox convert list (*), a Gallup poll that studied how much people in different states attend church regularly &#8212; HERE. Mississippi was at the top with 63% weekly church-goers; Vermont at the bottom with 23%.
Not a lot of surprises there. Just as you might think, southerners went to church the most, except for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.this-side-of-glory.com/archives/they-go-to-church-is-mississippi/</link>
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		<title>St. Valentine&#8217;s Day reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very sleepy as I write this. A sudden snowstorm and temperature drop has absolutely forced me (oh darn!) to hole up in the den and turn the space-heater up to 90. The realization that this is the last day to have any dairy products before Lent meant I filled up on some fine cheesy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.this-side-of-glory.com/archives/st-valentines-day-reflections/</link>
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		<title>The sage sayeth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just found out that Fr. Jack Sparks passed away on Monday. What a loss for us all! He was such a merry soul. He had this way of making the sign of the cross on your forehead and then giving it a little smack to make it sink it. It worked. (except in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.this-side-of-glory.com/archives/the-sage-sayeth/</link>
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		<title>For the love of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just added a short quote by Frederica Mathewes-Green to the rotating list of quotes that show up at right, and it reminded me of one of the most basic things about Christians that I think non-Christians get wrong. Or at least, I hope they do.

In &#8220;The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes [...]]]></description>
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