Word: prayerful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...qualities Methodists want in their ministers, as enumerated in Pointers for Pastors [TIME, Jan. 13], and you have a soberly attired, mildly cheerful chap who carefully assays the theological predispositions of his congregation before writing a sermon, and who takes pains to put more prayer than thought into its preparation; is a safe conservative in his political and economic views; delivers special addresses only to groups of no social significance or consequence; keeps clear of the great issues of our time by handing them the cliché treatment; has no bad habits; addresses his spouse as "dearie"; and covers himself...
...Lord's Prayer, like the New Testament in general, a sectarian document (TIME, Jan. 27), and should its recitation therefore be barred from public schools? Dr. Vivian Trow Thayer, Leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, thinks the answer is yes. Last week in Manhattan he declared: "The use of the Lord's Prayer in the public schools is but a camel's nose for a larger program. . . . Certain religious denominations now look to the public schools as a means for insuring their survival...
...their souls. This obligation carries through to the body politic. "It is wrong," says George MacLeod, "to pray only for 'Margaret suffering from tuberculosis,' if you know too well the noisome tenement in and by which the suffering began. If we work with Margaret in prayer, we must work with Margaret's father in the housing issues at the next election...
...Prayer & Poverty. During the nine years of its existence, lona has attracted some 180 "minister associates" in the Church of Scotland; some 380 "women associates" who meet at intervals and observe a modified Rule of living, and approximately 7,000 worldwide "friends," who contribute a yearly $1 and receive the Community's semi-annual publication, the Coracle...
...inner core of lona is still the Community, composed of the ministers who enroll for the two-year course of training and pledge themselves to devote half an hour each morning to prayer and Bible-reading. All members also seek to keep their personal expenditures down to Britain's national average income-$720 a year for a single man, $320 more for a married one, plus $240 for each child. Members' accounts are kept openly and discussed among themselves at regular intervals-items over and above the national average can be justified if they are "for the glory...