Word: prayers
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...Falwell and his supporters would do best to concentrate on their well-founded concern for the separation of church and state on real threats to this principle, such as efforts to reinstitute school prayer and to require the teaching of Christian creationism in public schools. Opening relations with the Vatican is a sensible step in diplomacy but it should not be taken as more of a symbol than...
Jesse Jackson goes to Syria, on a wing and a prayer...
...education in his own faith, Islam, apparently is spotty, but he probably has a general awareness of its teaching that God will weigh each person's deeds on the Day of Judgment. A practicing Muslim invokes the Almighty's mercy during the five prescribed daily prayer sessions. But for John Paul, penance and absolution have very precise meanings. Penance is one of the Catholic Church's seven sacraments. Baptized Catholics, before receiving Communion, are required to confess contritely all then- "grave sins" (for example, adultery) to a priest, and they are encouraged to confess lesser misdeeds...
Institutional as well as individual discoverers are the book's heroes. One sees again and again how the same institution would both foster and suppress discovery. For example, the medieval church advanced the development of clocks because monks' routine demanded bells to announce their hours of prayer, but it set back geography a thousand years because its interpretation of the Bible demanded a flat earth...
...present holiday celebrations from our historical legacy. To deny such roots is to disown the origin of our American culture. The Supreme Court wisely considered the arguments in deciding Marsh v. Chambers (1983). In Marsh, the Court permitted the Nebraska legislature to continue opening its sessions with a prayer from a state supported chaplain. The Court abandoned a strict constitutional analysis; instead, the Justices cited the substantial history of legislative chaplains and found no significant First Amendment violations...