Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the decision was made to go ahead with the project, Writer John T. Elson, for whom this is the tenth Religion cover story, approached his task, quite literally, with prayer. "It would have been easier to do in the Middle Ages in a magazine perhaps called Tempus," he said. "Easier because they had a God then that was consistent...
...Peace Corps. Speaking for a generation of young Roman Catholics for whom the dogmas of the church have lost much of their power, Philosopher Michael Novak of Stanford writes: "I do not understand God, nor the way in which he works. If, occasionally, I raise my heart in prayer, it is to no God I can see, or hear, or feel. It is to a God in as cold and obscure a polar night as any non-believer has known...
...more realistic, and somewhat more abstract, conception of God. "God will be seen as the order in which life takes on meaning, as being, as the source of creativity," suggests Langdon Gilkey. "The old-fashioned personal God who merely judges, gives grace and speaks to us in prayer, is, after all, a pretty feeble God." Gilkey does not deny the omnipotence of God, nor undervalue personal language about God as a means of prayer and worship. But he argues that Christianity must go on escaping from its too-strictly anthropomorphic past, and still needs to learn that talk...
...clergy to this first police violation of ecclesiastical property in the postwar era was prompt and stinging. Parish priests were instructed to rail against the police intrusion and denial of the right of assembly in their Sunday sermons last week. One, following the call to the traditional prayer "for the health of the Chief of State," also pointedly asked for prayers for "our companions, the students, who are passing through such difficult hours of stress...
Coventry was burned alive for possessing a copy of the Lord's Prayer in English. In 1531 a man was sent to the stake for eating meat on Friday. In 1556 "three silly women of the Isle of Garnsey" were burned for failing to attend church with sufficient regularity...