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Elizabeth's grandfather, who practiced medicine for 39 years, recalls his frustration. "Initially, I prayed for guidance that we be led to the right doctors, and for compassionate care, and that our family be upheld in our inevitable suffering. I did not have the faith to pray for healing of this known malignancy...
...family friend--an Episcopal priest--was staying at the Manlys' house over the weekend before the surgery. Elizabeth's grandmother had been thinking about Jesus' instructions for healing. "Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." After dinner Sunday night, the grandparents asked the priest if he would lead the anointing. He did, leaving the consecrated oil for Betsy to use again...
...together people pray that they're not called upon to remember names. I've tried every trick in the book, but my name recognition ability is dreadful. My roommate and I have worked out a system--if I don't immediately introduce her to someone who greets me, she takes that I've forgotten their name and introduces herself. Fortunately, my boyfriend has the same name as my roommate's long-time significant other, so I remember his name fairly well. (It helps that "Chris" is relatively easy to spell and pronounce.) Cosmo and Vogue may not realize...
...Pray? ... Religion in the Schools. Panel discussion about the proper role of religion in public education. Gutman Conference Center, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Call 495-0740 for more information...
...launch the Human Life and Reproduction Project, clearly modeled on what was once the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project and is now the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy. Unlike the ACLU, however, the ACLJ also has a group of 1,500 nuns, ministers and lay people organized to pray for it around the clock, and ACLJ lawyers are paid handsomely...