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...This Christian friend of mine convinced me to pray with him to God, so I sort of did. I prayed 'Hi God, I don't believe in you really, but if you're there, let me know'--and He did. When God lets you know it's really overwhelming. That sounds sentimental and trite, but it's true," says the 27-year-old native of Newton, Mass...
...secular campuses. Every third year, Kyle's organization sponsors missionary conventions at the University of Illinois, where North American collegians gather to consider overseas work. At the last meeting, in 1984, 4,683 students filed written pledges that they would go overseas, and 10,153 more vowed to pray about taking the step, double the commitments at the 1981 gathering. Says Kyle: "The reservoir of potential missionary candidates on the college campuses is astounding...
...food is still warm. At night he sleeps in the subway stations, catnapping between police rounds amid the thunder of the trains. "Some of these guys sleep right on the damn floor," he says. "Not me. I always use two newspapers and lay them out neatly. Then I pray the rats...
...protest unpopular wars or glaring injustices. But for the most part, if the Constitution were repealed tomorrow, it would be a very long time before the lives of a great number of Americans would be significantly affected--though some would celebrate our new freedom to torture criminals and pray in public school...
Looking reflectively down the length of the bridge, he said, "I have almost a perfect lack of confidence in those state fellows. If I were to pray, I would pray that the bridge be spared the attentions of engineers, and of arsonists -- equal dangers with very little difference. This bridge is a masterpiece. You can't help but be stirred by the workmanship that went into it. It should be saved. When it's gone, it's gone...