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...cursing or gossip. Stylists halt haircuts to pray with clients. The dose of religion is paying off. She serves 1,000 clients a month, grosses $540,000 a year and moved the salon to a 4,300-sq.-ft. space in February. Haircuts and massages are competitively priced, but prayer--her most popular service--is free...
...indomitable spirit, at the desperate height of the war few would have read in it the signs of an Allied victory. Whittington, like so many of his young comrades, did not return from New Guinea. We owe him, and all of them, a moment of reflection, and a silent prayer of thanks...
...Real, the newest Bible magazine, or biblezine, from Christian publisher Thomas Nelson Inc., based in Nashville, Tenn. The company's biblezines--which include Becoming (for women) and Refuel (for teenage boys)-- carry the New Testament with the look of a newsstand glossy, replete with pictures and sidebars that offer prayer, relationship, even beauty tips. Real, which debuted in July, targets young hip-hop fans. Rap renditions of stories like the parable of the mustard seed, are labeled "The Script" and scattered throughout the book. Revolve, a biblezine for teenage girls, includes a Q&A column called Blab. One installment, next...
...sits graciously through a local bishop's introduction and speaks. With three months' practice at this, he no longer steps on applause lines, such as references to his predecessor and a much anticipated trip to Germany. His initial remarks are energetic, though his expression while reciting the Ave Maria prayer remains more stoic than rapturous. He implores God to stay the hand of terrorists and convert their hearts, and he intones the Angelus honoring the Incarnation. And then, after precisely 20 minutes, Benedict works the crowd a bit and heads back indoors to ... what? A first, tone-setting encyclical...
Like many of her friends at the nondenominational Grace Chapel, Shea has a routine that includes morning, meal and bedtime prayer as well as daily "devos," or devotionals, a sort of scriptural homework. She says the regimen is paying off. "One thing I think God did do for me was to give me my own room [in the new house]," she says with a smile. "It's a bit of privacy God gave me to be alone more with him," she adds, "and get away from my sister...