Word: prayerfulness
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...prayer leader is Amina Wadud, an Islamic scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the organizers who invited her claim that she is the first woman to have presided over a mixed-gender prayer service in public since Islam's earliest days. The event was held in a cavernous hall on the grounds of New York City's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine because no major mosque would play host to it. "There are still men who believe women are not allowed to be leaders. They're bullies," says organizer Asra Nomani, author of the new book Standing Alone...
...long had important leadership roles. Aisha, a wife of Muhammad's, led an army and taught both women and men. Today's reformers are taking smaller but still symbolic actions. Last fall, at Chicago's Muslim Community Center, a 6-ft. partition that had long divided the genders during prayer was lowered 3 ft. after several women protested. That enabled the women to see the imam in front, and center president Mohammed Kaiseruddin says the change has helped women "feel like part of the congregation...
...talk him out of it." What even fewer people outside that office knew was that the two shared a bond that transcended power and politics: Buckham, a licensed nondenominational minister, was also DeLay's pastor. For a while, in DeLay's early days as whip, they organized daily voluntary prayer sessions for the staff--until it began making some aides uncomfortable. After that, according to two sources who worked in the office at the time, the two of them frequently prayed together privately, joining hands in DeLay's office...
...just because of the group’s religious affiliation. Other times, those most in need of help by these charitable groups have no choice at all. For example, the only vocational training available to prison inmates in Bradford County, Penn. (funded with government money) includes Bible study, prayer, and religious counseling. Also, there are indications that money which has already been allocated by the Bush administration to faith-based initiatives has gone to religious groups that counsel women against abortion—for religious reasons. In truth, the federal government does not have the best track record in vetting...
...Faculty members question Summers’ comments at a Morning Prayer in which he called demands to divest University funds from Israel “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent...