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		<title>John G. Panagiotou is the first Orthodox Christian Theologian to Receive a Doctorate at Erskine Theological Seminary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 18:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John G. Panagiotou became the first Orthodox Christian theologian to receive a doctorate at Erskine Theological Seminary on May 4, 2019, in it's 182 year history.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dachau 1945: The Souls of All Are Aflame</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Also read Pascha In Dachau by Gleb Alexandrovitch Rahr – Prisoner R (Russian) By Douglas Cramer In 1945, a Paschal Liturgy like no other was performed. Just days after their liberation by the US military on April 29, 1945, hundreds of Orthodox Christian prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp gathered to celebrate the Resurrection service [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Re-Creation Vacation &#8212; A Retreat to Discover and Refocus, Heal and Renew, Inspire and Recharge in Culpepper, VA on June 7-10, 2019</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How can we help someone who is struggling? Sometimes what most people need is a map that points them in the right direction and some encouragement and instruction along the way. 

If you of anyone who could benefit from retreat, please pass this along!]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Public Statement on Orthodox Deaconesses by Concerned Clergy and Laity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 01:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thirty-nine Orthodox Christian clergymen and lay leaders, including the heads of two leading Orthodox seminaries in the U.S., have issued a public statement calling on church leaders to defend Orthodox teaching on the creation and calling of man as male and female by opposing the appointment of deaconesses in the Orthodox Church. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Orthodox Appraisal of Political Correctness, Sexual Anarchy, Cultural Deconstruction and Conforming the Church to the World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 03:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Religion is the ground of culture and the ground that nourished Western Culture was Christianity. Christianity informed and shaped such things as personal and social values, anthropology (who and what man is), notions of justice, economic fair play, and other constituents that shaped the world in which we live.  Today some of those constituents are under attack, especially in areas of human sexuality. Many Churches have succumbed to the liberal zeitgeist (Episcopal, Mainstream Protestants denominations, increasingly Roman Catholicism as well) and suffered decline and even collapse.  
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		<title>The Boy Scouts’ Bankruptcy Is Not Just Financial. It’s Moral</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2019 02:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What's left of the Boy Scouts of America (now operating as Scouts BSA) is on the brink of declaring bankruptcy, according to recent news reports. With estimated assets of more than $1 billion, Scouting's problems go beyond the financial, deep into the problems with America';s civil culture today.

What used to be an organization designed to help boys become men has now been re-fashioned in line with the new gnosticism of American culture, accepting LGTBQIA ideology, while abandoning its traditional ascetic position about sex and its opposition to atheism.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pastoring Young Men into Manhood: Talk Given at the 2019 Touchstone Magazine Conference on Patriarchy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 12:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fr. Hans Jacobse]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following talk was given at the 2018 Touchstone Conference on "Patriarchy: Fatherhood and the Restoration of Culture" which drew together speakers from various traditions and disciplines to discuss how the assault on patriarchy is affecting culture. 

Fr. Hans Jacobse shares his experiences in dealing with young men growing up under these assaults and what is necessary to restore them so that they can flourish.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chastity, Purity, Integrity: Orthodox Anthropology and Secular Culture in the 21st Century</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This three-day conference focuses on the application of Orthodox teachings on anthropology and morality to contemporary challenges posed by secular American culture (even within the Church).]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Unbearable Essentializing of Being: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware&#8217;s Sorrowful Joy of Sex</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sexual identities, in contrast to sexual practices or passions, are a relatively new concept. Only recently were passions taken to define people, i.e. seen as constituting an identity or essence, such as homosexual or heterosexual&#8212;an understanding that even many secular circles now scorn as untenable. It is, then, discouraging to see a highly respected Orthodox hierarch dare to breach the unwavering moral tradition of the Church based upon such an &#8220;essentialist&#8221; notion of &#8220;sexual orientation.&#8221; Siewers argues that this step undermines Orthodox anthropology by turning the body into a thing (reification) and alienating humanity from the incarnation of the God-man Christ.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Called Out at Home: Breaking the Rules Ruins a Glorious Game</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An organized ball game is to faux-play baseball what marital sex is to sex as it is currently being promoted. Sexual activity severed from both marriage and family formation is like baseball activity without a real game in view: the physical sensations may be the same, but they lack purpose other than a quick feel-good. It's the difference between the meaning of a hook-up or one-night stand and the meaning of intercourse between a chaste man and wife who are deeply in love and open to having a family. One is merely orgasmic, the other romantic and marital. One is recreational, the other pro-creational.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dishonest Dialogue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2018 02:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Christian communions that have adopted the positions that the liberal Orthodox wants the Orthodox Church to &#8220;dialogue&#8221; about are dying.  Once a Christian communion becomes feminized it inevitably becomes homosexualized, and once it becomes homosexualized it becomes feminized. The pathologies work hand in hand and the result is decline and death. There is no exception to this rule.]]></description>
		
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		<title>You Can Help Us Build an Assisted Living Facility for the Orthodox Elderly</title>
		<link>https://www.aoiusa.org/you-can-help-us-build-an-orthodox-assisted-living-facility-for-the-orthodox-elderly/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Background About a year ago a few us got together to build an assisted living facility to take care of our Orthodox elderly. Any priest can tell you that some facilities are good and others aren&#8217;t but both lack something in common: spiritual care for the Orthodox client. Priests visit our Orthodox faithful in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Review of John McKinney&#8217;s &#8220;Hiking the Holy Mountain: Tales of Monks and Miracles on the Trails of Mount Athos, Greece&#8221; by John G. Panagiotou</title>
		<link>https://www.aoiusa.org/a-review-of-john-mckinneys-hiking-the-holy-mountain-tales-of-monks-and-miracles-on-the-trails-of-mount-athos-greece-by-john-g-panagiotou-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2018 01:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["Hiking the Holy Mountain" more than a travelogue. The book is a spiritual chronicle of the journey of a man from a place informed by secular religious nominalism into a vibrant encounter with the Divine.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Progressives Use the Terms &#8220;Dialogue&#8221; and &#8220;Fundamentalism&#8221; to Attack and Subvert Orthodox Tradition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a very sophisticated game being played here. And quite a few honest, faithful Orthodox people are setting themselves up to be played. This fight has been late coming to the Orthodox Church, but it&#8217;s here, and those who wish for the Church to be faithful to what it knows to be true had better wise up to the tactics and the strategy of the progressives, and learn from the bitter experience of the small-o orthodox within Protestant churches and the Catholic Church.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pascha In Dachau</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Johannes Jacobse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Also read Dachau 1945: The Souls of All Are Aflame by Douglas Cramer. By Gleb Alexandrovitch Rahr &#8211; Prisoner R (Russian) Dachau concentration camp, April 27th, 1945 The last transport of prisoners arrives from Buchenwald. Of the 5,000 originally destined for Dachau, I was among the 1,300 who had survived the trip. Many were shot, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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