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...Sometimes, when I pray it's not just because it's a ritual that I have to perform. It is also a way of connecting with my heritage," he says. "It reminds me of the times I used to stand next to my grandfather in Iran as a child imitating his prostrations and trying to repeat what he was saying in Arabic. You don't realize how much religion is part of your identity. At times, it's a way of remembering and dealing with your homesickness...
...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Pray harder...
...institute pioneered the tactic of using constitutional free-speech guarantees as a legal weapon for people claiming they were denied the right to religious expression--a frequently successful court strategy now imitated by other religious-rights advocacy groups. Rutherford's clients have included schoolchildren who wanted to pray over their lunches, a girl who wanted to read her Bible on the school bus and a Hindu who refused jury duty on religious grounds. The group also briefly considered defending Paul Hill, who was convicted of the 1994 murder of a doctor and another man at a Florida abortion clinic...
...felt homosexual desires...I would pray that God would take them from me," says Phillips, who is a member of Christian Impact...
...Rizzuto of the Yanks would fracture a rib, and that Alvin Dark of the Giants would hurt his knee...I wished all these injuries would go away once the baseball season ended." The priest, who it seems also loved baseball, gives her a light penance--and asks her to pray for the Dodgers...