Word: prayerfulness
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...some, this idea seems retrograde. Citing a series of Supreme Court decisions culminating in 1963's Abington Township School District v. Schempp, which removed prayer and devotion from the classroom, the skeptics ask whether it is safe to bring back the source of all that sectarianism. But a new, post-Schempp coalition insists it is essential to do so. It argues that teaching the Bible in schools--as an object of study, not God's received word--is eminently constitutional. The Bible so pervades Western culture, it says, that it's hard to call anyone educated who hasn...
...firstfemale Governor, once popular Southern Democrat Kathleen Blanco saw her star fall in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when she was roundly lambasted for a plodding, tuned-out response to evacuating and assisting victims and for fumbling poststorm recovery efforts. Blanco announced that "after much thought and prayer," she had decided not to seek re-election...
...mouth is the ultimate form of marketing. Which could be a little difficult if your most knowledgeable staff members have taken a vow of silence. The owners and producers of Chartreuse--a liqueur made from 130 herbs and plants--are Carthusian monks who live an ascetic life dedicated to prayer and contemplation at a monastery called La Grande Chartreuse, nested in the French Alps in Voiron, near Grenoble. Nevertheless, because the income generated by sales of the Chartreuse liqueur helps support La Grande Chartreuse and the order's other monasteries around the world, the business--privately and solely held...
...entreated.I soon surmised that Ali planned to go on Hajj, his texts becoming increasingly religious. He sent a few Expedia reservation codes, which I chose not to track online. “FW: HAJJAN MABRURAN WA SA3YAN MASHKURAN,” he kept texting, a shortening of the prayer canted before circling the black rock, or “Allah! Let this be an accepted Hajj, with sins forgiven, and a well appreciated effort.” I wished him the best on his spiritual journey to Mecca. Last month, Ali came up on Google for the first time, providing...
...same time, al-Sadr seems to be offering an olive branch to his Sunni rivals. His most recent Friday prayer, usually delivered to excitable crowds, was handed out on flyers in Sadr City. In it he asked his followers to unite with all Iraqis. "Reject all division and factionalism, sectarian and civil war," read the missive. "Treat your brother Iraqis as brothers. Do not discriminate between Sunni and Shi'ite at all, and nor against others, so that you be the highest example of all this." Instead he asked them to focus their rage against another enemy: "Raise your voices...