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Weathering both applause and derision, Graham has through the years become America's perennial deus ex machina, perpetually in motion, sweeping in to lift up spirits befuddled by modernity. When Presidents need to pray, it is Graham whom they call; he ministered to Dwight Eisenhower in the White House, spent the night with the Bushes on the eve of the Gulf War. Richard Nixon offered him the ambassadorship to Israel at a meeting with Golda Meir. "I said the Mideast would blow up if I went over there," Graham recalls. "Golda then reached under the table and squeezed my hand...
Many of the local clinics in the Boston area have regular protesters who do nothing more than stand outside with a couple of signs and pray. While annoying, these protesters are not the ones that the Clinic Access law is directed towards. It is the terrorist tactics of forcefully blocking clinics and physically intimidating women that need to be stopped...
...this kind of game, while focusing criticism on the correctable, you ultimately concede the uncorrectable; you ultimately concede the uncorrectable; you let the team off the hook and pray for a more fortunate schedule next season...
...psittaceous repetition of this really rather uninspiring sentiment has gotten altogether out of hand, a testament to the built-in fecundity of the banal. There appeared on posters: "Life is Short: Play Women's Rugby," as well as "Life is Short: Pray Hard." One activity put it on posters without even bothering to make a "clever" adjustment--simply "Life is Short...Play Hard," followed by the organization's name. To the publicity directors of the offending organizations, here is a message in terms you will understand: "My fuse is short, don't try so hard." These posters only convince...
...part documentary series on St. Paul revived her interest in religion. "What I really am is a historian of ideas," she says, "rather than a theologian, which sounds a bit narrow." She considers herself an unaffiliated monotheist who appreciates many aspects of Eastern Orthodoxy but finds it easier to pray with Jews and Muslims. "Only Western Christianity makes a song and dance about creeds and beliefs," she says. "The authentic test of a religion is not what you believe. It's what you do, and unless your religion expresses itself in compassion for all living things, it is not authentic...