Word: prayers
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...addition to calling for women rabbis, last week's rabbinical convention demanded that the seminary professors vote on the question "with all deliberate speed." Even if the seminary agrees to admit women to rabbinical training, many synagogues may not permit female rabbis to sign marriage contracts or lead prayer services. In traditional practice, such tasks, customarily performed by rabbis, are reserved to men alone...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair became the nation's best-known atheist in 1963 when, partly as a result of her suit, the U.S. Supreme Court forbade mandatory prayers in public schools. A fellow plaintiff in protesting Bible reading and/or recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Baltimore schools was her teen-age son William J. Murray III. He went on to become a publisher, but later joined his mother in Austin, Texas. In 1975 he reorganized the headquarters of her American Atheists and revived its monthly magazine. In 1977 he broke with his mother and tried...
...letter in the Austin American-Statesman, William, 33, now says he believes in God and is apologizing to the nation for helping build up his mother's "personal empire," and for his adolescent efforts against school prayer. William has not joined any particular denomination, but he feels that "the best way to survive on this planet is through faith in a higher power." He remarks that his former atheistic colleagues "are entitled to their beliefs," but "faith is a strong binding force that can help any individual...
...children's shoulders and sobbed into handkerchiefs. Groups of schoolchildren, reared on his all-embracing national legend, waved small Yugoslav flags with awe in their eyes. At the edge of the crowd, a youth knelt on an open newspaper, clasped his hands and moved his lips in silent prayer. "He was somebody very close, like in my own family," said Nikola Margis, 68, a craftsman with a white mustache, who had waited for ten hours to pay his respects at the lying-in-state. "For 35 years we lived together, and we had only good things from...
Some friends wonder if he is spiritually and intellectually capable of performing that tougher role. Carter clings to his conviction that there must be a way through prayer and good will to let the cup pass...