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...since 1997 led an Augusta, Ga., congregation, boosting its membership from 125 to some 2,100. In a January 2007 interview with Trumpet, a Trinity-affiliated magazine, Wright recalled introducing Moss to the congregation. "I had prayed to God to send someone to God's church. God answered my prayer in Otis," Wright told the publication. "Don't think," he added in the interview, "I would turn over 36 years to someone I didn't have complete confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unretirement of Reverend Wright | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...story represents a peculiar confluence of Eastern religion and Western science, as Taylor’s spiritual state was achieved not as a result of meditation or prayer, but through the literal destruction of a portion of her brain. Her journey is, in many ways, the ultimate display of materialism—even the ineffable condition of religious ecstasy can be created by neuro-chemical manipulation. The link between the physical and metaphysical serves as a powerful reminder that even the things about ourselves that we consider the most fundamental—our beliefs, our selves, and our basic conceptions...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: A Stroke of Genius | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...Ameya A. Velingker ’10, co-president of Dharma, a campus Hindu organization, said that since his group acquired their own prayer space in the basement of Canaday, they have little need for other spaces...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Opening the Doors to a Pluralistic Church | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...Inside the church, Wright's successor, Rev. Otis Moss III, didn't directly mention the Obama episode during his morning sermons. In fact his only oblique reference to Obama came during the call to prayer at the altar: "Every Christian is part of our family. Whether they're physically with us or not - they're part of our family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Church Moves On After Exit | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...years of wandering in Asia, Lee's family settled in Pennsylvania in 1964, and his father became a Presbyterian minister. Behind My Eyes is steeped in Lee's religious upbringing. "I doodled in the church bulletin on Sundays/ while my father offered the twenty-minute Pastor's Prayer," he recalls in "Cuckoo on the Witness Stand." Elsewhere in the poem, he recounts that "I sang in a church choir during one war/ American TV made famous." Lee also likens his own poetry to "a mission," but he's no firebrand proselytizer. His tone throughout this collection is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Things Past | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

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