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...language and liturgy, the trend helped fuel liberal Judaism's escape from a somewhat arid buy-Israel-bonds communalism into greater ritual and spiritual engagement. A case in point was Reform Judaism's 1999 public recommitment to the use of Hebrew in its services: "You've learned how to pray in Hebrew," says Rabbi Sue Ann Wasserman of Reform's Union of American Hebrew Congregations. "Why shouldn't you use it?" The women's group Hadassah periodically celebrates the ascendant rite with mass Bat Mitzvahs of as many as 122 women...
...late 2001, Ashcroft said it referred to terrorists and not to mainstream Muslims, but the point seemed lost on her. "Islam is the terrorist," Barbara asserted. "Muslims are the victim." The class ended in prayer. "We mourn the loss of life" in Iraq, someone said. Added Barbara: "We pray that the weapon of mass destruction, Islam, be torn down. Lord, we declare that your blood is enough to forgive every single Muslim. It is enough...
...good Muslim ... I mean Christian." And there are times when he feels "overwhelmed. I'm just one person--what can I do to help?" But each morning he is reminded of why he is here. The muezzin's first call to prayer rings out at 4 a.m. And pray Josh does. "I pray for the people responding," he says. "I pray that as they go to mosque, Jesus would somehow be revealed to them. I pray against that call--that it would not affect their souls." He prays he may help lift "this totally oppressive spiritual atmosphere...
When the moment comes that parents must trust their children's hearts to another, they pray that whoever fills that space--a teacher, a coach, a character in a book--will be worthy of the power and will use it well. A month after Catie Hoch's ninth birthday, doctors found that the cancer had spread to her brain and that she had only a few weeks left. That was when the phone rang...
...Grandfather Cosby’s lengthy Sunday prayers: Of Grandfather Cosby’s lengthy Sunday prayers, he said, “I didn’t understand a word after he said, ‘Let us pray.’” When, as an adult, Cosby told his grandfather of this, “Granddad just looked at me and said, ‘I wasn’t talking...