Word: worshiped
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These organizations and many others, including informal weekly Bible studies and formalized Friday worship in Lowell Hall, boast heavy student involvement and large memberships. The vastly secular education Harvard offers its flocks seems not to have circumscribed them, but to have freed them...
Students who are religiously observant here sometimes participate in groups that provide fellowship and common worship, while others often do so quietly, but decisively. My first-year roommate, a devout Mormon, took seriously the commandment "to keep the Sabbath holy." She never did school work on Sundays. Even before final exams, she would study for the first part of the weekend then would rise early on Monday morning to finish whatever she had left undone. She used her Sunday as a day of reflection, prayer, church activities and "catching up" with family and friends...
Fasting for Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam. HIS President Aamir A. Rehman '99 said that while fasting has no direct correlation to the revelation of the Koran, the practice has a basis as a method of worship in earlier religions, like Yom Kippur in Judaism...
...knew what its beliefs were. If all she wanted was a church that ran itself to her liking, she had many to choose from. If she wants to be a priest, the Episcopalians should be happy to accommodate her. But Ramerman may not be going to church to worship; she may be interested only in making waves. G. BARRY HILLARD Medina, Ohio...
...from 1353 to 1336 B.C.? Closing the temples of the powerful priesthood of Amon, this royal Egyptian heretic established the state cult of a godhead embodied in the sun disk, or Aton. In Moses and Monotheism, Sigmund Freud speculated that Moses was actually an Egyptian who passed single-deity worship derived from Akhenaton to the Jews. (Was there not, he asked, an echo of Aton in Adonai?) Other scholars, like German academic Jan Assmann, author of Moses the Egyptian, believe Moses and Hebrew monotheism are a memory of Akhenaton, whose name was purged from all lists of rulers when...