Word: prayerfulness
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...alabaster prayer room of the Zoroastrian temple in the center of Yazd, a handful of adherents sway to the cadence of ancient Persian prayers recited as a priest feeds sticks of sandalwood and sprinkles of frankincense into a blazing urn. Zoroastrians wear hand-woven wool cords as external symbols of their faith, and almost always pray in front of a fire, which represents purity and sustainability. In Yazd, the holy flame has burned for 1,500 years without ever being extinguished. While Zoroastrianism was once the dominant religion in a swathe of territory spanning from Rome and Greece to India...
...another contact sport, politics.’”Kennedy and his wife, Victoria, took the stage as the Harvard University Band performed “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard.”The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes followed the introduction of the event with a prayer and James B. Onstad ’09 sang “America the Beautiful.” Onstad also performed “Fair Harvard” later in the ceremony.Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, a former Harvard Law School professor who served as chief counsel...
...Republicans used to seize Capitol Hill that year, except for the emphasis on term limits and changing Washington. He's portrayed Martin as a squishy Big Government liberal who supports Obama, higher taxes, socialized medicine and pro-abortion judges who legislate from the bench, but opposes the Second Amendment, prayer in schools, offshore drilling and a bill to make English the official language of Georgia. Martin is borrowing more from the Obama template of 2008, declaring himself the candidate of the middle class, bashing Chambliss for voting to privatize Social Security while opposing health insurance for children, prescription drugs...
...make you a bad Muslim. One of my girlfriends even attended a Sufi yoga class where the teacher played the daf (a Persian frame drum) and everyone chanted to the Shi'a Imam Ali. Many, like my mother, like to note the similarities between the physical sequence of Muslim prayer and asanas, claiming harmony, or at least fatwa-free ground, between Islam and yoga...
...Thank Heaven for Political Opportunism. Emerging from a recent interview with the Shi'ite politician Hadi al-Ameri, I was greeted by an incredible sight in his waiting room: a Sunni member of parliament and two of his aides, performing their mid-day prayer ritual...