Word: prayerize
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...Babikir's careful reply actually says quite a lot about the complex challenges he and his country face. After all, relying on Iraq's politicians to cement the tactical gains made by the American and Iraqi militaries is more a prayer than a strategy. Though the rail-thin officer downplayed the danger of militias affiliated with members of the government, like the Badr Organization and the Mahdi Army, many of the political opportunities cited by Babikir could just as easily be called part of the problem...
LISA WHELCHEL The Facts of Life Shopaholic Blair is now a prayeraholic writer who dispenses Christian parenting tips. Her latest book, Taking Care of the Me in Mommy, suggests making time to "linger in the word and tarry in prayer...
...singing, the preacher launches into a sermon extolling the growth of Christianity in China. Then he steps among the tightly packed worshippers, holding their heads and praying over them, chanting what would sound to most Chinese like gibberish. Soon most of the room has joined him in fervent, noisy prayer, many swaying back and forth, eyes squeezed shut, moaning, shouting, wailing. One woman repeats over and over, "Oh mashalah, oh Yesu, oh mashalah, oh Yesu, oh Yesu, oh Yesu." (Yesu is Jesus; mashalah seems to mean nothing.) The woman's face is clenched in ecstasy; tears run down her cheeks...
...they label xie jiao, or evil cults. The most famous is the brutally suppressed Falun Gong movement, but the authorities may be tempted to extend that label to the Christian sects that are growing the fastest--those practicing fervid forms of worship that stress miracles and personal inspiration through prayer. A number of cultlike, pseudo-Christian offshoots have sprung up in the Chinese countryside in recent years, apparently inspired by this ecstatic form of worship. Often spawned by the personal ambition of their leaders, these highly secretive groups usually espouse millenarian views that make the authorities profoundly nervous. Members...
...When public institutions like schools do anything, one of the basic rules is this: It must be for a secular reason, it must have primarily a secular effect and it can't entangle them with religion. That's why the U.S. Supreme Court struck down prayer and Bible reading in class. But Olivia's case raises unusual issues on the entanglement point. Her song was religious, but the talent show was open to the public and held after school, no students were required to attend, and no rule prohibited acts with religious themes. Yet school officials worried that someone, especially...