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	<description>A Sarcastic Response to Post-Christian Angst</description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Jonah on Dispassion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had heard, mostly from the grandmas at church, of the great wisdom and gift for teaching of Metropolitan Jonah.  However, I didn’t really understand why they all made such a fuss until I heard this, a talk given on the subjects of dispassion, ego, and theosis.  It’s rather long, but it’s worth it.  Enjoy:]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>4 Things That Are Not Reasons I Became an Orthodox Christian</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/summa/2013/11/4-things-that-are-not-reasons-i-became-an-orthodox-christian/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is perhaps nothing which is more painful, and obnoxious, than someone believing that they understand why you believe something that you do.  For anyone who believes anything, this is an understandable problem.  If you believe in God (or god, or spirits, or even just an afterlife) you’re used to the annoying commentary from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Against Hope in Damnation</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/summa/2013/11/against-hope-in-damnation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the wake of all the controversy revolving around Fr. Baron’s remarks about von Balthasar, I thought it would be appropriate to try to add an Eastern voice to all this commotion. All this aggression and name calling with regards to von Balthasar’s universalist hope raises an interesting question, why are we so bothered by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On the Many Kinds of Temptation</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/summa/2013/11/on-the-many-kinds-of-temptation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2013 21:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Personally, I think that the great wisdom of the Romanian Elders isn’t common enough.  Thus, to rectify this, I present Elder Arsenie Papacioc on temptation.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Few Changes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s almost certainly not gone unnoticed that I haven’t written anything recently.  This is due in part to the fact that I have been preparing for reception into the Orthodox Church. This has been a long and adventurous journey, and perhaps I will write about it at some point.  For now though, I feel obliged [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“I AM” is not “Is”: Nihilism</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/summa/2013/08/nihilism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Despair]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?” -Nietzsche (The Will to Power) This puzzling and frightening question which marks the onset of the last of Nietzsche’s works requires an answer, and this answer explains much about ontotheology.  As such it would appear that there are two different conceptions of nihilism [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Christian Rite for Same-Sex Union</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/summa/2013/07/a-christian-rite-for-same-sex-union/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 03:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Secularization]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time a heavily biased scholar published a work on the (scandalous) existence of a rite for same-sex union within the Christian tradition.  And he was right. Allow me to imagine your responses… “D:&#60; !!! WHAT THE HELL!” It’s not a new topic, in fact, it’s quite old news… but apparently Huffington Post [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saved from Sin or From God</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/summa/2013/07/saved-from-sin-or-from-god/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have written before on the typical Protestant concept of “Life Boat” salvation.  However, upon more in depth consideration of this erroneous notion of “once and then you’re good” salvation there appears to be a much more flawed ideal at the base of it all. The Bleak Background of a Well Meaning Notion: Those who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Sola Scriptura Honestly Scares Me</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Being raised in a Protestant home, the Scriptures were (and in many ways still are) the end-all-be-all of the faith for me.  However, there is a reason I am no longer a Protestant.  This reason has many branches but all points back to one thing, context.  Given the necessity of context, I find the whole [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Upholding the Sabbath</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Summa Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 23:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’re all aware of the commandment to “remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”  Most of us know that this is why we’re expected to be at the Liturgy (Mass, service, etc.) each week, and on Holy days.  And in our snarky, self-amused manner we stand boldly (those of us who do go when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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