Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ministers teaching in seminaries proclaiming the news that God is dead. On the theological right, evangelical preachers summon believers back to a strict Biblical orthodoxy; on the left, angry young activists insist that to be a Christian is to be a revolutionary, and propose to substitute picket lines for prayer...
...congregation, according to a church spokesman, is "concerned with the same things that Joan and David are." The nuptials were performed by the Rev. Thomas Lee Hayes, 35, executive director of the Manhattan-based Episcopal Peace Fellowship. Hayes chose the Anglican Church of Canada's Book of Common Prayer instead of the American text. The Canadian version, Hayes explained, "has some phrases that I consider more beautiful, and also it was a nice way of remembering those in exile in Canada" -presumably U.S. draft dodgers hiding out north of the border...
While at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, a friend remembered, he was not interested in committees or attendance. When the church's spire was in danger of being condemned, however, Miller rallied the congregation into raising $45,000 for its renewal and spurred a drive for a new prayer chapel as well...
...push needed to transform them into reality. In fact, one White House aide said that Johnson planned no new programs as a result of the report. "We've gone about as far as we could possibly go," he said. "Anything more and we wouldn't have a prayer of getting Congress to enact the surtax." Yet there are times when the President must galvanize a nation's conscience and will -and this is clearly one of them...
...hard for a high-spirited nine-year-old not to be noticed. For the sake of safety, he is packed off to live with the peasant parents of one of his family's friends, and becomes a counterfeit Catholic equipped with a Christianized name, the Lord's Prayer, and strict instructions not to let anyone see that he has been circumcised...