Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concludes an introduction to the course: "Approach your boys and girls with prayer, anticipation and confidence. A wonderful adventure lies ahead for you and for them...
...Like God." Although the manual warns that "the Bible, the Prayer Book and the Hymnal will be essential tools in your teaching," the chief aim of the series is to express religion in everyday, sometimes even in comic-book terms. For six-year-olds, there are three gaily illustrated booklets of stories about Tish and Mike, whose adventures make good beginnings for classroom discussions of religious truths. The booklets may well guide as many parents as children, showing Daddy and Mother coping wisely with such family crises as Mike's TV-induced nightmares and Tish's embezzlement...
...fitting across the back. I ignored the better-dressed people, and tried to justify my past actions by deciding the poorly dressed ones were the Christians." But by the time Billy Graham had reached the last words of his "invitation," Jim Vaus had stumbled over to the prayer tent and fallen on his knees. To Reach the Unreached. Since then, Wiretapper Vaus has been Evangelist Vaus. Following the footsteps of his fundamentalist preacher father, he travels from pulpit to pulpit in a panel truck with $18,000 worth of electronic equipment. He sets it up in churches, and rivets
...once a year, if that). Daily, Chiang rises before 6. At that hour, the house on the lower slopes of Grass Mountain, just north of Taipei, is quiet; outside, the ever-present armed guards stand silently among the trees. Chiang's day begins with an hour of prayer and meditation. Often Madame Chiang joins him, and they may sit silently together for the whole hour...
...convent's "hidden heart." For the apparent separation (and even conflict) between activity and adoration that seems to bifurcate Christianity is not real. Many great figures of the church, beginning with St. Paul, have combined both elements without conflict. "Laborare est orare," said St. Benedict (work is prayer). The Maryknoll sister hacking a kitchen garden out of the Bolivian jungle is living a prayer. And prayer is work. The cloistered contemplative rising at midnight to sing the psalms of the Divine Office is working for her fellow men-in Bolivia or The Bronx-whom she may never...