Word: prayerful
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...silk autumnal bouquets, zipped behind the head of a female cashier and pierced a hole through thelamp over the register of lane No. 5. Emerging on the other side, it whizzed over a Christmas-ornament display and finally ricocheted off a shelf of Inspiration for the Heart mini prayer books. Unlike every shot to come, the bullet hurt...
Hammond remained a well-known campus figure, who rode his bicycle everywhere and regularly attended Morning Prayer...
...them by God. This is called “speaking in tongues.” To the uninitiated, this display is perplexing. A Dutch friend of mine, Jonathan, turned to me and whispered, “Are they all mentally retarded or deranged?” But after their prayer time, it was clear to both Jonathan and me that they were thoughtful, intelligent and welcoming people. Pentecostal believers reject notions of strict tradition and earthly spiritual authority and rely on direct spiritual revelation from God, who they believe speaks daily through both leaders and laity. They look to Jesus...
...evidence that could be used to help secure the conviction of former President Slobodan Milosevic. BELARUS My God Is Your God The Senate approved a bill that would restrict the activities of small religious communities and help entrench the dominant position of the Orthodox Church. The bill banned organized prayer by groups of less than 20 people and prohibited religious communities that have been in Belarus for less than 20 years from publishing literature or setting up missions. MIDDLE EAST Courtroom Rage Scuffles broke out in court between the families of Israeli victims of terrorist attacks and Palestinian spectators...
...American Sociological Review resolved to “express our regret and honor their memory by rising and preserving a moment of silence.” Whose memory, the venerable OED doesn’t say; there are space constraints. But clearly, the phrase came into vogue when school prayer was disallowed; the OED’s next citation is from a 1962 article in the Washington Post: “A moment of silence...Would it be possible and acceptable to have each school day commence with a quiet moment that would still the tumult of the playground...