Word: prayerfulness
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...living in a "'60s time warp." No presidential nominee since John F. Kennedy has so lightly dismissed those turbulent years. What could the Summer of Love have meant to a 6-year-old in Hawaii, or Woodstock to an 8-year-old in Indonesia? The Pill, Vietnam, race riots, prayer in school and campus unrest - forces like these and the culture clashes they unleashed have dominated American politics for more than 40 years. But Obama approaches these forces historically, anthropologically - and in his characteristic doctor-with-a-notepad style. In The Audacity of Hope, he writes about the culture wars...
...button issues that the candidates can't afford to ignore. A controversial ballot initiative can fire up strongly committed constituencies and bring them en masse to the polls, where, of course, they'll also cast a presidential vote. This year's contenders range from a call for prayer time in public schools to a proposed sex strike to end the Iraq war. One of the highest-profile measures, Amendment 46, would do away with most forms of state-sponsored affirmative action. Initiative 113 would cut subsidies to energy companies and effectively raise their taxes by more than $200 million, with...
Last week, 670 bishops of the Anglican Communion returned from the Lambeth Conference outside London to their dioceses around the world, their faith fortified by 19 days of prayer and theological debate and buoyed by relief that the once-a-decade meeting had passed off with little public acrimony or mention of schisms...
...correspondence dating from 2000 and 2001 with Welsh psychiatrist and evangelical Christian, Deborah Pitt, Williams described how his literal faith in the scripture's prohibitions against homosexuality began to crumble after about 1980 and that 20 years of study and prayer had led him to the "definitive conclusion" that "an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage...
...demonstration that followed Friday's prayer, a crowd of men rallied - as they often do - with Iraqi flags and portraits of al-Sadr raised above their heads, chanting, "No to America! No to the agreement! No to the occupation!" Saadi, the MP, says the Mahdi Army will never turn violent in Sadr City again. But he says it could carry out more demonstrations "if the government pushes the people and doesn't fulfill its promises." The Interior Ministry official is more wary, saying, "People want services like electricity, water and medical care ... They are fed up with the military...