Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philips gave in, and Sister Luc-Gabrielle arrived with a new guitar and a chorus of four, habited in black and white. During recording sessions, Sister Luc-Gabrielle made little nunnish jokes to ease the strain, and at lunchtime all five sisters would repair to a nearby monastery for prayer and refreshment...
...Lovett's 21 trustees are required to be Episcopal communicants; their chairman is the dean of St. Philip's Cathedral; and, in keeping with the school's chartered purpose of furthering religion in accordance with "the Episcopal faith as contained in the Book of Common Prayer," Holy Communion is celebrated by the dean each Wednesday morning for the student body...
Contrary to the impression left by your Oct. 25 report, my paper presented at the Chicago conference on Religious Freedom and Public Affairs did not criticize the decisions of the Supreme Court in the prayer and Bible-reading cases on the merits. In my judgment the decisions were sound in principle. I did point out that the establishment clause is broad enough in its reach to apply to governmental action respecting religion which does not necessarily have any special effect upon individuals, as well as to governmental action which does interfere with individual freedom. I went on to say that...
...Supreme Court. No, said some of the experts at Chicago -at least not to the broad extent assumed in the Supreme Court decisions. For a Bill of Rights provision to be unmistakably applicable to state actions, "life, liberty or property" must in some way be involved. The school-prayer and Bible-reading cases were concerned with neither life nor property. That left only liberty...
...every age, men have struggled to perceive God directly rather than as a tenuously grasped abstraction. Few succeed, and the visions of the world's rare mystics have normally come only after hard spiritual work-prayer, meditation, ascetic practice. Now a number of psychologists and theologians are exploring such hallucinogenic drugs as mescaline, psilocybin and LSD-25 as an easy way to instant mysticism...