Word: prays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have loved to give a speech, but I wasn't asked to do that. I was asked to pray. The argument against that from of speech seems to run something like this: If no prayer is appropriate, then any prayer is offensive. On that score, there then is no way in which I or anyone else could satisfy the writer's concern...
Surely at least a minimal concession to the efficacy of prayer on such occasions must be that at least the person who prays it ought to be able to believe it. To allow for that is a small step toward that tolerance for which the writer presumably pleads and for which I pray, daily and on state occasions. The Rev. Peter J. Gomes Plummer Professor of Christian Morals
...launch demonstrations on abortion clinics, Operation Rescue members generally meet at a church, pray for an hour and then take the T to a clinic, Yellin said. But Wasinger said procedures vary from time to time...
...fact, it is not qualified, neither in theory nor in actual practice. Even the less specifically Christian sections of the prayer revealed Christian assumptions about how to pray on behalf of other religions...
...first thing we say is we are with you in your shock, anger and sorrow. With you we ask how long must anyone endure abuse of any kind simply because God made them different in any way whatsoever from others or from a majority? We pray for the day when we can all live in peace and justice with one another. We pledge ourselves to working together constructively to make that common prayer a collective reality...