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		<title>The Limits of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the limits of love?  The phrase “I love you” is one of the most ubiquitous and inescapable phrases in the English language.  I’m sure its counterpart phrases are almost equally ubiquitous in other languages.  I doubt you’ve never heard the phrase or spoken it yourself.  But what does it mean?  Fifteen seconds’ thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=657&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fog of Despair</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s exactly eleven days since I was ordained as a deacon in the service of The Church of the Advent in Atlanta, GA, under the Bishop of the Diocese of the South, within the Province of the Anglican Church in North America, a part of the global Anglican Communion and ultimately the Holy, Catholic, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=645&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>According To The Whole &#8211; Part 2: Distinction And Dislocation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[According To The Whole]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before getting into this post, I want to interject this disclaimer.  This series on the faith &#8220;according to the whole&#8221; is a product of my ongoing labor to better understand the nature and significance of the Church.  The impetus behind this labor was my realization that there is much more to the Church (its history, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=569&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irony And Paradox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love looking at life, nature, and reality through different lenses from time to time.  If you pick an idea, a &#8220;meta-concept,&#8221; to look through, you can be amazed at the colors it brings out all around you.  For example, irony and paradox are good meta-concepts.  David Wright, a Fellow at the CIRCE Institute, spoke on these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=601&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith And Sight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 4th of July, the 235th birthday of our nation, as it were.  I&#8217;m not entirely sure what I&#8217;ll be doing yet, but I anticipate various grilled and delicious foods, a lot of relaxing, and hopefully some illegal fireworks.  Among our current Federal holidays, Independence Day is one of the more straightforward and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=584&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflection On Lent And Pascha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 05:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After observing Lent, and especially the last days of Holy Week, it&#8217;s absolutely amazing how exciting the arrival of Easter is.  At The Advent, we had a service every night of Holy Week, including a vigil at 11:30 Saturday night in order to celebrate the Resurrection literally first thing in the morning.  By the time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=548&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horrors of the scourging and crucifixion of Jesus, had we the eyes to see them, would undoubtedly haunt us for our entire lives.  Every year on the Friday before Easter, Christians try to have the eyes to see that horror.  Good Friday is the day &#8220;to know nothing &#8230; but Christ and him crucified.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=544&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>According To The Whole &#8211; Part 1: The Phenomenon of Non-Denom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you &#8212; that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.      -John 17:21 I was talking with a friend the other day about his church and about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=479&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epiphany</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, January 6, is the feast of Epiphany.  For four weeks prior to Christmas we moved through the season of Advent &#8211; a season of hoping and expectation.  The essence of Advent reflects our intuitive assessment that the world isn&#8217;t the way it should be.  It speaks hope into our situation because of our after-the-fact perspective [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=477&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speedily cause the offspring of David, Your servant, to flourish, and lift up his glory by Your divine help because we wait for Your salvation all the day. Blessed art thou, O L-rd, who causes the strength of salvation to flourish.&#8221; That&#8217;s one of the eighteen traditional Jewish benedictions (Shemoneh Ezreh) which were prayed for centuries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenbrannen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4450303&amp;post=463&amp;subd=stephenbrannen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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