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	<description>&#34;The beauty of the images moves me to contemplation, as a meadow delights the eyes and subtly infuses the soul with the glory of God.&#34; -- St. John Damascene</description>
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		<title>My Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two monks lived together in the desert for most of 40 years. Every day, they would work together and pray together. For four decades they had grown in faith and holiness, tending to each other’s needs and living in peace and harmony. One day one of the monks said to the other that in all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=300</link>
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		<title>For Peace and Mutual Upbuilding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit; he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. – Romans 14:7-19 Upon encountering this reading today in Morning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=297</link>
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		<title>For I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For me, the stages of hunger are: I could eat. I need to eat. Taco Bell sounds GOOD. Stay away. I’m grumpy. Of course, at any given time I’ve got a pretty good idea of where my next meal is coming from and I know how I am going to pay for it. Not all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=295</link>
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		<title>Party Affiliation in the Fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get a daily email from a very conservative Protestant group that features news releases, blog links, and – perhaps most interestingly – a daily poll. I’m not quite sure how I ended up on this email list, since I am neither Protestant nor extremely conservative, but there it is every day. This group seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=264</link>
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		<title>Rare Guercino and Michelangelo Paintings Acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired the painting Christ and the Woman of Samaria, dated to 1619–20, by the Italian artist Guercino, one of the foremost painters of his time. The purchase was announced today by the Museum’s director, Eric M. Lee. The painting dates from Guercino’s early, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=259</link>
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		<title>The Re-Inauguration of Jaffa Gate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM (Israel Antiquities Authority) &#8212; There isn’t a Jerusalemite who hasn’t seen this site: an enormous black cloth that in recent months has concealed one of the most important and famous gates in the Old City of Jerusalem. Now after the Israel Antiquities Authority Conservation Department has completed the rehabilitation work there, it can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=254</link>
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		<title>The Jesus Scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Liebermann painting in the crossfire of critics Exhibition curator: Dr Ute Haug; academic advisor: Henrike Mund The exhibition The Jesus Scandal at the Hamburger Kunsthalle centers on an oil painting of pivotal standing, &#8220;The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple,&#8221; 1879. One of most important works by Max Liebermann (1847-1935), it is being highlighted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=228</link>
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		<title>Vengeance and a Jackass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a story about crime, punishment, and vengeance. It is autobiographical. Maybe these are not the topics that might be expected from someone who claims to write about “theology, Christian living, and liturgical art,” but bear with me for a moment. At the time and place where I went to junior high school, corporal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=225</link>
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		<title>Collectors and Auctioneers See Signs that Art Market is on the Verge of Solid Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (REUTERS) &#8211; The art market plummeted with the onset of the global financial crisis but experts, fund managers, collectors and auctioneers are rallying on signs the once-hot investment is on the verge of solid recovery. Less than two years after an unusually long-lived art boom came to an end with lower prices and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=223</link>
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		<title>Codex Sinaiticus Reunification at British Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A remarkable collaboration between institutions in the UK, Germany, Egypt, and Russia has succeeded in reuniting virtually more than 800 pages and fragments from the world&#8217;s oldest surviving Christian bible, Codex Sinaiticus. For the first time, people around the world will be able to explore high resolution digital images of all the extant pages of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richardgross.net/?p=219</link>
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