Word: prayer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Morning Prayer Service turns out to be the calmest part of a whirlwind schedule for the popular minister. He's meeting with chaplains from the University Ministry in the morning, counseling members of the Faculty in the afternoon, serving tea, writing commentaries and planning speaking tours well into the night...
Darrell is also pushing ahead with his vision of a large youth ministry based on his daughter's life and journals. He has become a prominent advocate of reinstating prayer in schools. He has stepped up his fund raising--he earns about $1,500 for the ministry each time he speaks--and in December brought out the first issue of a magazine called Rachel's Journal. He wants to build a combined Columbine memorial and Christian youth center that would focus on teaching and training young people from around the country. And he wants to build a 200-ft.-high...
...movie adaptations of Irving's novels have disappointed. Hotel New Hampshire, even with the talents of Jodie Foster and Beau Bridges, was pretty bad, and The World According to Garp, starring Robin Williams, wasn't much better. The worst, however, was Simon Birch, the big-screen "adaptation" of A Prayer for Owen Meany. It was so terrible, in fact, that Irving forced Disney to remove the original characters' names from the movie, leaving only a "loosely inspired by" credit. These films were missing one key piece: Irving himself. The Cider House Rules is the first screenplay he wrote himself...
Reagan was Governor of California in 1974, when he invited McCain to a prayer breakfast in Sacramento. McCain has never been a particularly reverent guy; but that morning he found himself telling the silent crowd about a discovery he made when he was thrown into solitary confinement in a 6-ft. by 9-ft. hole in the ground. On the wall was etched a testimony, scratched into the stone by a previous occupant: "I believe in God, the Father Almighty," read the jagged writing. The words sustained him, McCain told the crowd, through his 2 1/2-year solitude. When he finished...
...final commendation prayer was said by Rev. David Lindsay, Protestant chaplain of the Worcester Fire Department, and the firefighter prayer was read by Lt. Donald Courtney, vice-president of the local IAFF chapter...