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		<title>The Old Words Are Helpful</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dad is gone. I keep wanting to call him. I need his advice. He is there my reason tells me, but he is silent. Death has created, for the moment, a chronological loneliness that nothing can heal for now. Death is horrible. For those looking for something different, some profound new words about the loss of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When the Center Holds: A Tribute to My Father’s Legacy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 01:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thankful That the Center Held I have seen the end, and in the end, the center holds. Dad was breathing every six seconds or so, Victorian novels had prepared me for the rattle, no book for the sound. Dad, dear old Dad, Daddy, the guy we could ask because he would know, struggled mightily for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Baby Anna Beans</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/eidos/2024/09/baby-anna-beans/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whim Wham, our brilliant grand, approached the water reverently. She was holding a can of beans and proceeded to baptize that object and give the Beans a name. From henceforth until the End, the Beans would be: Baby Anna. Baby Anna has now joined Baby Gorn and Pi at tea parties where no real tea is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Yet I Love Her: History and the Church</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 04:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unless your mother was the Mother of God, then she will have had her faults. My Mom, grand lady that she is, may also have some faults, but if so piety suggests I not share them here. Why would I? The Church does not teach that she is without sin. Why would I state the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vain Repetition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 04:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Of all the vanities, the vanity of vain repetition may be the worst.  I have heard it said on very high authority that vain repetition even applies to prayer.  Whatever it is, we better not do it. I am no theologian, so I shall not venture to comment on prayer, but a longish life has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>History and Hidden Ethics and Philosophy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 04:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[On Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Beware hidden assumptions in histories. Too often one gets third rate philosophy the historian cannot defend as philosophy. Often this is justified because “this is just the way history works” forgetting that historians have adopted different background philosophical, ethical, or even theological assumptions at different times. If one adopts a Platonist, a Marxist, or any other view of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Iceberg is There:  Verbosity Cannot Defeat Reality</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/eidos/2024/06/the-iceberg-is-there-verbosity-cannot-defeat-reality/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 01:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reality opposed smashes the soul. The credentialed pass the ship as safe, after all, the company has made it safer than the rules say they must, and entire papers can be written on the progress shown in this largest movable object ever built by mankind. “Humanity has conquered nature!” Yet the steel is inferior, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dangerously Credentialed Minds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Reality Deniers  Communism in the Soviet Union was dying. The evidence was everywhere, but credentialed minds in official educational institutions could explain impotence as rebirth, bare sentience as brilliance, and official evil as a necessary destruction of eggs to make an omelet. Reality was not fooled and the Soviets fell. Grifters and liars existed, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>One Weeping Icon at Christmas is Enough</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I saw an icon weep. I did. I can use a search engine and so know what the explanations might be, but I poked about, and I do not believe the naturalistic accounts. The icon was weeping, and the tears healed me. I cannot prove that either to a critic’s satisfaction, but I am not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Silence and Jollification</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mark N. Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Christmas is coming and so we hush in hopeful anticipation. Anticipation right before a big event causes most of us to hold our breath. We wait and stop talking lest our words distract us from what is about to happen. Stillness can be hard for me when something exciting is coming like Christmas. A wise [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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