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		<title>It&#8217;s Advent and I have nothing to wear!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t thought much about Advent this year; and this very fact has disclosed something interesting.  Every commitment that is not school has felt like a burden to me as of late.  And while I can&#8217;t say that this is desirable, it is what it is and the idea of trying to formulate some plan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=396&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carnival: unveiling of primordial energies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carnival worked as a public and communal venture because the world was enchanted.  In other words, whether one believed in an overarching order of the world or not, one knew that this was the prevailing worldview.  But this is not the cut and clean order that we have come to know through our modern experiences [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=393&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://herbofgrace.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/carnival-unveiling-of-primordial-energies/</link>
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		<title>How Buffered Is Your Self?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taylor uses a couple of interrelated phrases that speak powerfully of our pre-modern/post-modern selves; his terms are the pre-modern “porous self” and the modern “buffered self.”
The porous self describes the common pre-modern worldview of being open to the good and evil forces of the world.  This meant that there were demons to be placated and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=385&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://herbofgrace.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/how-buffered-is-your-self/</link>
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		<title>Political Discussions in the Public Sphere: Designed to be Powerless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing from my previous post on Charles Taylor&#8217;s A Secular Age, I want to reflect on a point that Taylor makes regarding the public sphere.  He makes an interesting distinction between the public sphere of our modern age and the public sphere of the ancient republic or polis.  Both historical scenarios include discussion outside the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=377&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://herbofgrace.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/political-discussions-in-the-public-sphere-designed-to-be-powerless/</link>
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		<title>Music in Modernity: Gatherings of Sub-Conscious Desire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the summer reading Charles Taylor&#8217;s A Secular Age, a large work in which he endeavors to explain how, in 1500, it was inconceivable not to believe in God while in 2000 it is quite easy, if not inescapable.  He is determined not to weigh-in with his own opinion while admitting that this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=364&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://herbofgrace.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/music-in-modernity-gatherings-of-sub-conscious-desire/</link>
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		<title>A New Season.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello all,
It has been a good while since I&#8217;ve written on this blog but I&#8217;m beginning again as Kate and I move to Vancouver to do Master&#8217;s studies.  I&#8217;ll be reflecting and working through various ideas and thinkers that I encounter at Trinity Western (where I&#8217;ll be doing a Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Humanities).  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=362&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://herbofgrace.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/a-new-season/</link>
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		<title>He is Risen!   Easter Sunday, April 12th.</title>
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Greetings to you and yours on this, the beginning of the Season of the Resurrection of Jesus! It is here, for now, that our little reflections will cease (here where everything begins).  For continued readings and resources of this sort, feel free to wander over to St. Stephen&#8217;s Publishing.  Catch you in Advent!
Joel Mason
Scripture for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=349&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://herbofgrace.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/he-is-risen-easter-sunday-april-12th/</link>
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		<title>Holy Saturday, April 11th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reflection on Holy Saturday: The Death of God 
By Ry Siggelkow
It is all too common for us to skip over Holy Saturday. Perhaps it is because we don’t want to accept the reality of death, much less the death of God. We celebrate Good Friday for what “Christ did for us” on the cross, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=346&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://herbofgrace.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/holy-saturday-april-11th/</link>
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		<title>Good Friday, April 10th.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Good Friday Reflection:
This famous prayer by Thomas Merton is about confusion, danger, depression, and the darkness that so often characterizes the spiritual life.  In it, we can hear the voice of Jesus on this, Good Friday.  Perhaps we can hear him whispering these words as he rose in the morning after a long night [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=344&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://herbofgrace.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/good-friday-april-10th/</link>
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		<title>Holy Thursday, April 9th.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Holy Thursday Reflection:
While Holy Thursday holds many points of important reflection, (the last supper and the garden of Gethsemane for instance) this meditation turns to Judas.  It is important that as we read Judas’ betrayal we do not make the mistake of thinking ourselves very different from him, we are not.  Judas may have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herbofgrace.wordpress.com&blog=2221328&post=338&subd=herbofgrace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://herbofgrace.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/holy-thursday-april-9th/</link>
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