Word: hungering
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...using its economic resources to end world hunger and redistribute the wealth of the planet so that everyone had enough...
...hunger for action. Lines for newspapers stretch half a block; people walk with flags sticking out of their purses, wear them as bandannas on the streets. Everyone fights back in his own way; Wall Street retaliates by getting back to business. "We'll have conference calls every morning," a boss tells his team, whose offices have been vaporized. "I want that letter of intent in the morning." You can't stop competing if you're an American business--now the fight is for office space across in Jersey City, N.J. Broadway reopens its theaters; at the end of The Producers...
...word that keeps coming back is hunger. Scholars talk about it, but so do preachers and parishioners. The reason that preaching is enjoying a revival in churches where it was a dying art, say religion scholars, has to do with appetites that are harder to satisfy outside church, as the culture grows noisier and more coarse. "People will come to church if they know they will be fed there--fed with the experience of an encounter with Christ," argues Robert Klonowski, a Lutheran minister in Chicago. "Billy Graham is no different than the weekly preacher. The job is the same...
...which includes enduring inconvenience at airports and public buildings; a vigilance that will in many ways restrict the unfettered freedom to travel that we once took for granted. But we also must be vigilant about those who want to rush us into unthinking judgments and actions to satisfy a hunger for vengeance. We show our strength and confidence not in precipitous action, but in patience...
Lauren Artress, an Episcopal priest at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, founded the modern U.S. labyrinth movement after discovering this quiet pleasure during a retreat in New Jersey in 1991. "We have a vast spiritual hunger in the West," she says, "and labyrinths are a tool for centering...