Word: prays
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...Today we're just teaching them how to pray in these difficult times." SUTRISNI, elementary school principal in Indonesia's Aceh Besar, on the reopening of schools in the devastated region...
...mannerisms. He is either really dumb or really good at acting really dumb. Kris Kristofferson is good at affecting Jesus with a laconic absence of humor, which I suppose is a skill in itself, like Al Jolson’s dancing in blackface. James Claveziel, take note: you should pray to have Kristofferson’s screen presence when you reach his age. And then, of course, Wesley Snipes is truly phenomenal...
Gulay can call American troops in Iraq “state-sponsored killing squads” if he likes, and assert that they are analogous to the janjaweed. I’m sure, then, he wouldn’t mind castigating as foolish those Darfurians who pray each day, in vain, for their attention...
...their plight than the slaves in the house. As he would put it, “if the master’s house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would…while the field Negro would pray for a breeze to pick up.” Well, on Nov. 2, 2004, the master’s house on the Democratic Party plantation went up in epic flames And while the Congressional Black Caucus and the Jesse Jacksons of the world try to rebuild the house that Clinton built...
Last night students gathered in the home of Lowell House Master and Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck to sing, pray and feast, marking the high-point of the yearly Hindu festival of lights. In the amber glow of dozens of diya (ceremonial candles), students sat cross-legged on the carpeted floor, chanting bhajans (devotional songs), reading excerpts from sacred texts and sharing stories about the festivals they had known in their childhood...