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		<title>Mud</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a world of mud. Everywhere we turn there is mud. Nothing but mud. We are born in mud. We live in mud. We die in mud. When we first open our eyes, the only thing we see is mud. Our mother and father are covered in mud. We look at ourselves and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalandincense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14563084&amp;post=97&amp;subd=charcoalandincense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beheading of St. John, Baptist and Forerunner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only the Orthodox, to my knowledge, honor and venerate St. John to the extent we do. Even the Catholics, who hold much of the same Tradition as we do, do not honor him with such extensive hymnody as we. During Great Vespers and Matins on his feast day, we sing an amazing amount of hymns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalandincense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14563084&amp;post=83&amp;subd=charcoalandincense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recognize that in the person of this king is signified the Son of God, who held the whole human race guilty in the infinite debt of sin., since through the first sin we were all debtors of sin and death. In the ten thousand talents the serious sins of the human race are signified. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalandincense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14563084&amp;post=81&amp;subd=charcoalandincense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warning signs of suicide &#8211; Health.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning signs of suicide &#8211; Health.com. No one can be too prepared for dealing with suicide. Sometimes it may be a family member, sometimes a friend. It&#8217;s been three weeks since I interrupted the suicide of someone dear to me. I may know the warning signs, but there is no way anyone can be prepared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalandincense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14563084&amp;post=67&amp;subd=charcoalandincense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is possible to have a civil discourse on moral issues without falling into polemics? I started thinking about this during a late night conversation with my best friend last Tuesday. The discussion involved how we in the Church relate and react to the various moral issues we deal with daily. Typical American Christians say, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalandincense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14563084&amp;post=37&amp;subd=charcoalandincense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real World is at Hand!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Real World is at Hand! Okay, so in actuality Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is at hand, rather than the Real World is at hand (Mark 1:15), but I think a case can be made that they are one and the same &#8212; if one uses “real” in the Platonic sense. Plato [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalandincense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14563084&amp;post=36&amp;subd=charcoalandincense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Incense Found To Be Psychoactive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[via Incense Found To Be Psychoactive. by Kate Melville Biologists from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have discovered that burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain that alleviate anxiety and depression, suggesting that an entirely new class of medicinal drugs might be right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalandincense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14563084&amp;post=34&amp;subd=charcoalandincense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything we do in our liturgy invites a sense of mystery. Fr. Alexander Schmemann, of blessed memory, in <i>For the Life of the World</i>, talks about the Divine Liturgy inviting us on a mystical journey from the mundane world to the noetic realm and back.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalandincense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14563084&amp;post=4&amp;subd=charcoalandincense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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