Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon after that, the much reported praying scene took place, and Nixon gives his recollection: "I told Kissinger that I realized that, like me, he was not one to wear his religion on his sleeve. On an impulse, I told him how every night, when I had finished working in the Lincoln sitting room, I would stop and kneel briefly and, following my mother's Quaker custom, pray silently for a few moments before going to bed. I asked him to pray with me now, and we knelt...
Carter's religion has deepened, and his attachment to Charles Trentham's First Baptist Church has grown. He sits attentively in the sixth row, aisle, right-side seat during services. He prepares his Sunday-school lessons when he is in town, sends for the new lesson books when the old ones expire. His feeling mounts when he is teaching lessons about the need to reach out to the world's abused and outcast. He was most eloquent when caught up in the story of the woman at the well and how Christ had transformed her life. Prayer...
...town as a kind of ecclesiastical banishment. Yet it is Dudko, not Patriarch Pimen, who has come to symbolize Christianity's will to survive in the officially godless nation. As much as any man in the Soviet Union, he has borne effective witness to the relevance of religion in a modern state...
Classical Indian music is connected deeply with the Hindu religion in which it was born. According to legend, several yogis created the music 4000 years ago. They devised a musical system whereby each note symbolized a feeling and part of the body. The music's purpose was utter self-realization, to be one with...
Benign Reminders. The Rev. Ted Peters, a Lutheran who teaches religion at Loyola University, New Orleans, has assiduously collected many supposed messages from space visitors reported by earthlings. In his recent book UFOs: God's Chariots? (John Knox; $7.95), Peters notes that most of these agree with the love-thy-neighbor teachings of the Bible (e.g., "Thou shalt not kill"). Whether UFOs exist or not, Peters argues, God may be using UFO "experiences" to communicate benign reminders to earthlings. Peters makes a more credible case when he suggests that people's UFO accounts reflect their sublimated religious longings...