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		<title>The great crucifix debate (Part 3: Antisemitism)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Background
The crucifix debate is likely to be of great interest to the ecumenical movement, particularly as it relates to Jewish Christian relations. When Jews think of a crucifix they invariably see the Jewish people, and not specifically, the Jewish messiah on the cross.
Academic perspectives

Daniel Johan Goldhagen sees antisemitism and nationalism as two sides of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seventimesseven.wordpress.com&blog=4202843&post=4080&subd=seventimesseven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The great crucifix debate (Part 2: The reaction)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Calascione</dc:creator>
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The Church reacts

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, gave a brief statement on the 4th of November, to Vatican Radio in response to the ruling:
&#8220;The crucifix has always been a sign of God&#8217;s offer of love, of union and of welcome for the whole of humanity,&#8221; the spokesman said. &#8220;It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seventimesseven.wordpress.com&blog=4202843&post=4078&subd=seventimesseven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The great crucifix debate (Part 1: The Judicial ruling)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Calascione</dc:creator>
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Background 
On the 3rd of November 2009, the European Court of Human Rights affirmed the rights on a European citizen to educate her children in a way that did not violate the right to education and the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
The case was originally brought before the Court by Soile Lautsi, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seventimesseven.wordpress.com&blog=4202843&post=4076&subd=seventimesseven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tradition of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Calascione</dc:creator>
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An elderly Rabbi was once on an airplane to Israel sitting next to a self-professed atheist. They were amicably chatting the whole trip.
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		<title>Be Ye Rememberers of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Calascione</dc:creator>
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The struggle to attain to the impossibly lofty heights of the One and Only is a struggle shared by peoples of all faiths or none, willingly or not. The Jewish Orthodox Rabbi, Pinchas Lapide, in speaking of the human propensity to divide the indivisible says this:
&#8220;…our tiny human brain cannot comprehend this All-Unity and therefore [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seventimesseven.wordpress.com&blog=4202843&post=3907&subd=seventimesseven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The two olive branches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Calascione</dc:creator>
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The Roman Catholic Church has come under fire again, in the UK&#8217;s The Times.
Dr Williams was notified formally only last weekend by the Vatican and looked  uncomfortable at a joint press conference with the Archbishop of  Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, to announce the plan. Anglicans privately accused Rome of poaching and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seventimesseven.wordpress.com&blog=4202843&post=3878&subd=seventimesseven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting Children in Sudan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Calascione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Robbins&#8217; TIME reportage on the so-called Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army in Western Equatoria  state in Christian South Sudan. 
This is a perfect example of how God&#8217;s command word in the Decalogue can be misheard and turned on it&#8217;s head.
&#8220;God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seventimesseven.wordpress.com&blog=4202843&post=3854&subd=seventimesseven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon recommends</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Politics and hope at the horn of Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Calascione</dc:creator>
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In December 2007, the government of Eritrea issued an ultimatum to the Orthodox church in Eritrea, demanding that all offerings and tithes be deposited directly into a government account from where salaries of priests would be paid. The government also placed limits on the number of priests that would be allowed to serve in each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seventimesseven.wordpress.com&blog=4202843&post=3751&subd=seventimesseven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Calascione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A band of self proclaimed atheists, having refused to countenance the idea that God exists (less still admit that He is the only preexistent, exalted Being) have at last turned their attention to the  human soul.
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