Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sociologist contended that modern religion, considered in terms of "high-pressure chain prayer" is "sham," and also cannot save mankind. The research center found that the moral changes in 73 people who were converted to Christianity by Billy Graham's "15-minute" method were extremely slight...
...installations, in New England five. Detroit's suburban Highland Park Presbyterian Church (one of four in Michigan) lists its "Lifeline" phone number in the newspapers, and when Minister Robert C. Young, 36, hears from his office the low buzz of a new call, he makes a short, silent prayer for the caller...
Denver's Dial-a-Prayer is sponsored by an organization of Catholic women telephone workers called "Our Lady of the Bell," and averages 600 calls a day. The state of Washington has at least 17 telephone prayer services; when Seattle's University Presbyterian Church installed one last June, calls jammed lines for five hours, blew fuses, and threw the Kenwood exchange out of commission until the telephone company put in supplementary "disaster" service. In San Francisco the Christian Evangelical Church claims some 100,000 calls each month. And in booming Los Angeles, the Y.M.C.A.'s Dial...
...lists seven characteristics of miracles: 1) the phenomenon should be relatively infrequent; 2) it should be reasonable and moral; 3) it should have evident spiritual motivation; 4) it should promote welfare; 5) it is usually instantaneous; 6) its effects should be persistent; 7) it is usually an answer to prayer. These conditions are supposed to be universal, but there are trends in miracles...
...Both prayer books were bought from Baron Maurice de Rothschild's collection in 1954 by James J. Rorimer, then curator of The Cloisters, a Met outpost. For Medievalist Rorimer the two books represented "an extraordinary opportunity for supplementing The Cloister's collections." Rorimer, now the Met's director, used income from a $10 million gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to purchase the books, waited until this year's Christmas season to announce the acquisition...