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		<title>Book Review: Orthodox Christians in America: A Short History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up Orthodox Christians in America: A Short History a while ago and finally got a chance to finish it off last night. This is a very quick and fast read about the history of the Orthodox Church in America (only about 100 pages of narrative text). One of the unique things about Orthodoxy in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2010/02/19/book-review-orthodox-christians-in-america-a-short-history/</link>
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		<title>Interior Castle, part 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve reached the end of our journey through the mansions and arrived at the center. Where, Teresa describes the spiritual marriage that takes place between the soul and God. After briefly covering this mansion I&#8217;ll talk about my reflections of the book overall. 
In this section Teresa wants to make a distinction between what she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/11/17/interior-castle-part-7/</link>
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		<title>Interior Castle, part 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve come to the sixth level of our castle/tower. At this point, according to Teresa, the soul is tightly bound to Christ. It has chosen to be united with Christ, to become one with the betrothed. However, there is still a period of betrothal that must be endured. According to Teresa it is certainly a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/10/29/interior-castle-part-6/</link>
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		<title>Interior Castle, part 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I approach the fifth section of this work, I need to make a confession. It&#8217;s getting harder and harder to finish this book. This is not because the content is giving me trouble, but because the writing craft is so foreign to what people today are used to. I find myself frustrated because I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/10/07/interior-castle-part-5/</link>
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		<title>Interior Castle, part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we continue our journey into the 4th mansions, or 4th floor of our building, we come to the point where Teresa says that the natural and the supernatural start to mix. She begins by talking about the difference between &#8220;sweetness in prayer&#8221; and &#8220;spiritual consolations&#8221;. The first of these is something that we attain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/09/29/interior-castle-part-4/</link>
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		<title>Interior Castle, part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve come now to the third or mansions, or the third floor of our tower. At this point in Teresa&#8217;s descriptions we&#8217;ve arrived at the point where people are basically living a pious life. In this level we find people who have managed to overcome the day to day struggles of sin. Granted, from her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/09/26/interior-castle-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Interior Castle&#8230; a quick pause for explanation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After talking with a couple different people I want to take a quick pause in my thoughts to just cover a couple things.
First, someone expressed some confusion about the metaphor of the various mansions. What Teresa is doing is using an urban planning metaphor that people in her day would understand. In her time there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/09/23/interior-castle-a-quick-pause-for-explanation/</link>
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		<title>Interior Castle, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This second portion of Teresa of Ávila&#8217;s work is quite short. She explains that this is because she has covered much of this material in a different book. However, I don&#8217;t really feel compelled to go and seek out that book, and want to just stay focused on what she&#8217;s given us to chew on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/09/21/interior-castle-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Interior Castle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I picked up, and started reading Interior Castle by Teresa of Ávila. I thought it might be an interesting task to bring the readers of HHG (all 3 of you) along with me as I journey through this classic work. The nature of this work is to examine our souls as if they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/09/19/interior-castle/</link>
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		<title>Healthcare and the Christian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NOTE, the contents of this post are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of other authors on this site.
Today on a walk, I was listening to a podcast from a Franciscan friar about the history of Catholic hospitals. This again started prodding some thoughts in my head, that have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/09/13/healthcare-and-the-christian/</link>
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		<title>Orthodoxy and the Culture Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize in advance, knowing full well that I will probably make a few unorthodox statements and probably ruffle more than a few feathers &#8212; I&#8217;m sorry, really. But indulge me for a few minutes and allow me to be quite frank.  There&#8217;s a long overdue vent that requires being thrown out into some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/07/20/orthodoxy-and-the-culture-club/</link>
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		<title>the sum of the parts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t lie &#8212; I&#8217;ve neglected my contributions to The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide [psst... and I'm the admin]. In fact, because I felt like I had nothing to say or to contribute to the discussion of the ancient faith, I didn&#8217;t say anything at all.  
It was probably better that way.

I met with my long-time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/07/15/the-sum-of-the-parts/</link>
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		<title>First Eastern Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Sunday I had the honor of being able to experience the Eastern liturgy for the first time. Michael&#8217;s child was being baptized, and even though the baptism doesn&#8217;t take place during the liturgy, we were all invited to attend the liturgy beforehand. I decided to take them up on the invitation and see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/07/15/first-eastern-experience/</link>
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		<title>To be fair to the English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written here in a while and had some thoughts on my mind so now&#8217;s as good a time as any to share them.
In a previous post I talked about my reasons for becoming Catholic, as opposed to the other two options that seemed open to me at the time. I spent a bit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/06/01/to-be-fair-to-the-english/</link>
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		<title>Lenten Discipline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[online casinoReposted from Boolah

In the season on Lent, Christians are called upon to focus themselves on Christ’s sacrifice for us in the upcoming Passion, by engaging in some form of spiritual discipline. We’re all familiar with the traditional avenues this usually takes, such as picking something to give up for Lent, and the traditional Catholic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hitchhikersguide.org/2009/02/24/lenten-discipline/</link>
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