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		<title>Crows</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 10:30 this morning I had just checked my e-mail and was getting ready to sit down to work on the lecture I am scheduled to deliver in Ohio next week on the subject of the Filioque controversy — a subject about which the Preacher, the son of David, may have been prophetically thinking when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=618&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judith Herrin on Byzantium and America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article by the historian Judith Herrin was posted yesterday to openDemocracy. The article on which it comments, &#8220;Take Me Back to Constantinople,&#8221; by Edward Luttwak, appears in the November/December issue of Foreign Policy. I hope people in the government read Luttwak&#8217;s article and his book (The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire), and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=610&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poems for the war dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is commemorated the ending of the First World War, at 11:00 a.m. on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, what in Europe is still called Armistice Day, and, in the United States, is now called Veterans&#8217; Day. In memory of the 16 million people who died in this war, and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=598&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Brussels with love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Brussels the verdict comes down:
No crucifix is to be shown
In schools of a public domain;
That&#8217;s something that Europe&#8217;s outgrown.
To buildings of private address
It&#8217;s well that your faith be confined.
With symbols you there may obsess,
And if you pray there, we don&#8217;t mind.
In Europe&#8217;s academied halls
Grave tutors cough mildly and nod
And say: &#8220;It is right that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=593&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Half a Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following poem was sent yesterday to my friend David Auerbach/John Q. Blood, musician, poet, philosopher, and sometime house painter, on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. Happy Birthday, Johny!
At half a century
our thoughts begin to tend
towards how we may support ourselves
when colder days descend
At half a century
through spectacles we look
and must resort to stronger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=590&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Communio article</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally have some good news to report. Today I received an e-mail from the Managing Editor of the journal Communio, informing me that the Summer 2009 issue is now, at last, in print, and that they have decided to feature my article on &#8220;John Bekkos as a Reader of the Fathers&#8221; on their website. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=584&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Patriarch at Fordham</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Patriarch of Constantinople was in New York to receive an honorary doctorate of laws at Fordham University; I drove up to the Bronx to attend the ceremony. I had brought with me my camera, and, while I was there sitting in the University Church, listening to the various dignitaries give their speeches, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=576&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Autumn Day</title>
		<link>http://bekkos.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/an-autumn-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word “glorious” is not a word I use lightly or often. Yesterday was a glorious autumn day in northern New Jersey. After an utterly miserable Saturday, muggy and rainy, that concluded with a tropical downpour, complete with lightning and gale-force winds, I awoke yesterday morning and got ready for church. In driving west, on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=571&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Melling : Schism and Communion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never met David J. Melling, the author of the following essay. He lived in Manchester, England, apparently taught at the university there, was a communicant at a Greek Orthodox church, and, besides authoring a lucid introduction to Plato and being one of the editors of The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity, wrote a short, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=561&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Basil on stealing from the poor</title>
		<link>http://bekkos.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/st-basil-on-stealing-from-the-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fr. John Santor posted a question yesterday to my translation of St. Basil&#8217;s Sermon to the Rich, asking if I could direct him to the passage where Basil says something like the following, &#8220;You with a second coat in your closet, it does not belong to you. You have stolen it from the poor man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&blog=1623402&post=555&subd=bekkos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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