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		<title>Broken Hallelujahs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariana Barillas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2016 15:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Beginning with a lover’s wish to woo his beloved with the music that the biblical King David played to please the Lord, the song “Hallelujah” is a testament to the existence of a natural yearning to seek spiritual fulfillment through romantic relationships.  Filled with Judeo-Christian religious imagery, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has described “Hallelujah” as an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>That Hideous Strength: When Marriage Saved the Universe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Butler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 16:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[Editor’s Note: This essay is Part 3 of a series on C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy, following Elwin Ransom’s journey through Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. Check the archives to access the previous two analyses: “How C.S. Lewis Used Aliens to Show Humanity’s Failings” on February 13, and “What if You Could Stop the Fall of Man” on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What if You Could Stop the Fall of Man?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Butler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2016 13:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[Editor’s Note: This essay is Part 2 of a series on C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy. Perelandra is the second book following Elwin Ransom’s journey which began in Out of the Silent Planet. The essay series will end next week with the author’s analysis of Lewis’ third book That Hideous Strength.] The Fall is one of the seminal events of man’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Finding Redemption in the Blackness: Good Friday with Solzhenitsyn, Hawthorne, and O&#8217;Connor</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/loveamongtheruins/2016/03/finding-redemption-in-the-blackness-a-good-friday-reflection-with-solzhenitsyn-hawthorne-and-oconnor/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Pfaff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[John Paul II intended his first encyclical Redemptor Hominis (Redeemer of man) to be “a great hymn of joy for the fact that man has been redeemed through Christ—redeemed in spirit and in body.” JPII titled his Theology of the Body “Male and female He created them,” but perhaps it would be better, he reflects [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Grace in the Grotesque: The Mysteries Represented in O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s &#8220;A Temple of the Holy Ghost&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/loveamongtheruins/2016/03/grace-in-the-grotesque-the-mysteries-represented-in-oconnors-a-temple-of-the-holy-ghost/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma Vinton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 14:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[Editor’s Note: In her essay “The Church and the Fiction Writer,” Flannery O’Connor addresses the relation between Catholic dogma, the Catholic writer, and the Catholic reader. She reminds the writer that a fixed dogma is not a limitation on the writer’s observation of life, but an additional dimension to reality. The truthfulness and wholeness of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Be There for You: How the Power of Marriage Brings about Healing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma King]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2016 14:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The classic TV sitcom Friends is iconic for its long run, humor, and relatable characters that made everyone feel they were part of the “gang.” Friends also pushed the envelope, dealing with themes that America was just beginning to delve into in the 1990s. Taking a supportive and liberal approach to topics such as hook up culture, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How C.S. Lewis Used Aliens to Show Humanity&#8217;s Failings</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Butler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 13:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[Editor’s Note: This essay is Part 1 of a series on C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy, beginning with Out of the Silent Planet. Look for upcoming analysis of Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, both of which prove to be just as fruitful when read along side John Paul II!] Would you baptize an extraterrestrial? This highly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Use and Shame in &#8220;Love Yourself&#8221;: How Justin Bieber Teaches Theology of the Body</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Petersen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[Editor’s Note: Some will say it is a stretch to extend a Theology of the Body interpretation to an artist who has so obviously fallen prey to the most degraded aspects of pop culture.  The author writes, however, from the intuition that there is something more going on in Justin Bieber’s new album–an intuition with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Baptizing the Modern World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mattie Vander Bleek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[Editor’s Note: While not explicitly Theology of the Body-focused, this essay on our response to the modern dilemma is not only a beautiful analysis of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, but really gets at the vision Saint Pope John Paul II had for the Church. The author begins with a diagnosis but does not end there, making [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Divine &#8220;Mediation&#8221; in New York City</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Molly Judd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before I knew it, two big kisses embraced both of my cold cheeks. I had barely stuck my hand out to introduce myself before the tall, broad, and slightly greying Italian man standing in front of me gave me this intensely warm gesture. With his deep, blue-grey eyes, and Italian accent I felt seen, loved, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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