Word: worshiper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...National Institute on Aging study of 4,000 elderly living at home in North Carolina found that those who attend religious services are less depressed and physically healthier than those who don't attend or who worship at home...
...spirituality of it ambushed me. Unwittingly, I was engaging in a practice that has been at the heart of religious mysticism for millenniums. To separate 20 minutes from the day with silence and intention is to worship, whether you call it that or not. To be awakened to the miracle of existence--to experience Being not only in roses and sunsets but right now, as something not out there but in here--this is the road less traveled, the path of the pilgrim, the quest...
Although he arrived at Harvard in 1958 to study religion, Epps has devoted his life to helping students navigate the College. Institutional philosophy has changed--most students today have come to worship only at Henry Elkins Widener's monolithic memorial--but Epps has maintained his belief in the role of the benevolent administrator...
...Jews were not the first to take possession of Zion, but the first to connect it with worship of the one true God. The building of the Temple was a statement of the meaning and permanence of Jewish belief against the threatening tide of paganism. For nearly 2,000 years, as the Jews made themselves into a faith and a nation with Jerusalem as their capital, the city represented the promise of final salvation and the soul of their identity. That very veneration begot a fierce possessiveness and, when the Temple was lost, a perpetual desire to return...
...succession of spiritual decisions and political circumstances passed the city from faith to faith. The rise of Greco-Roman power opened the way for the followers of Jesus to remake Jerusalem into Christendom's holiest place, a development she regards with little sympathy. Christians were taught to worship God's presence in Jesus rather than a specific place, she says; only in the 4th century with the archaeologically suspect "discovery" of Christ's tomb within Jerusalem's walls did the church project ideas of the divine onto the city itself, wrecking Jewish shrines to build Christian ones. The Byzantines...