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    Kursk Root Icon in Dallas

    Check with your local ROCOR parish, according to Matushka Olympia at the Theotokos of the Life-Giving Spring, the Kursk Root icon will visit every ROCOR parish in the US (at least that was my understanding).
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    Kursk Root Icon in Dallas

    The Kursk Root Icon will also be in College Station (whoop!) at the Theotokos of the Life-Giving Spring mission on Wed. 04/20 : [/size][/font] and in Houston for a few days before: www.theotokos-lifegiving-spring.org
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    An Orthodox ethic of hospitality - any thoughts?

    Stefan- To echo the sentiments of others, you ask such wonderful questions! It is obvious that you are thinking deeply about these spiritual matters. May God bless you on your journey. You would do well to contact Jim Forest (of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship), I know that this is a topic he...
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    The Holy Father has died

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    Writing a paper on prayer...a vision of worship...but

    Stefan- I think your article would be served well by reading Bp. ANTHONY Bloom's Beginning to Pray. I cannot reccommend this book highly enough. You can read excerpts online at Amazon.com. At just over a hundred pages, this book is a fairly short (and highly compelling) read. Also, I second...
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    A dose of Fr. Vasily!

    Funny Stuff! This reminded me of a story about St. John Cassian that Fr. Matthew told us a few weeks ago: http://www.incommunion.org/articles/issue-33/getting-our-robes-dirty
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    Is a complete Eastern Orthodox study bible coming soon?

    http://www.lxx.org
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    Orthodox and Just War

    Because I’m not sure that everyone here knows (or would be inclined to go looking for) the tenets of the Just War Theory, I’ve included them below (along with my comments on each. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/j/justwar.htm A Just War is one that: Has just cause Has been declared by a...
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    Orthodox and Just War

    Good topic. I'll post some cursory responses to get the ball rolling; hopefully it will generate some more debate. But first, I should probably once again make clear my stance on pacifism as a Christian perspective (not that any other pacifism is somehow diminished, just that my arguments might...
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    Orthodox and Just War

    Howdy menno & welcome to TAW! Forgive me for not referencing the entire thread, as I didn't intend to stay and post anything at all, but this is a subjec that hits close to home for me. I will instead post some things I have written about this topic in the past. I hope that they are useful; if...
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    The Orthodox Study Bible

    This might be a good place to start: http://www.dynamispublications.org/
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    The Salutations........

    several folks that I know that come out of a Russian/Slavic background do the Friday Akathist Hymns during Lent. We're Antiochian and will be doing them...
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    Forgiveness thread

    Dear brothers and sisters, forgive me those trespasses you know and those you don't.:bow: May you have a blessed journey this Lenten season. Peace.
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    Asking Orthodox questions for a friend

    Yes, this is more in the vein of what i was thinking...that the spiritual father is responsible to God for the spiritual guidance that is given... Wonderful reminder!
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    questions

    John- Thank you, you did apprehend my post correctly. Our Non-Chalcedonian brethren might certainly think so ;), but no...for us, Christ's two natures exist in hypostasic union; they are who Christ is, and cannot be undone from one another. To quote St. John of Damascus, we use icons because...
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