For many U.S. college students Taize-style worship offers a sanctuary of calm and community.
Prayer
Bill McKibben 7-01-2007
The fight against global warming will require a movement full of fire and prayer. That movement has begun...
Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2006
U.S. Capitol Police arrested 115 religious leaders in front of the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., in December while they knelt on the steps to pray and protest the planned federal budget cuts to social programs that aid the poor. The event was organized by Sojourners and Call to Renewal. “I have lived and worked among the poor for 12-plus years,” Denver-based participant Michelle Warren told Sojourners. “I am an evangelical Christian and we, as evangelicals, need to advocate for the poor. Today was just the beginning.”
Rose Marie Berger 2-01-2006
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Prayer can literally change our brain.
Jens Soring 9-01-2003
What a Department of Corrections shotgun pellet taught me about centering prayer.
Rose Marie Berger 1-01-2003
At the corner of 14th and Euclid Streets NW in Washington, D.C., many evenings at sunset, the Domino's deliveryman kneels down to pray.
Duane Shank 3-01-2002
Jewish-Christian "dialogue" is too often just that—an intellectual, theological discussion with no grounding in shared experience.
Scott Cairns 5-01-2001
Your petitions—though they continue to bear
just the one signature—have been duly recorded.
Nancy Hastings Sehested 1-01-2001
"You don't know what it's like to have a husband, small children, and a congregation. There's no time for prayer."
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 9-01-2000
In most American "community watch" groups, residents report suspicious activity to the authorities.
Michael Joseph Brown 7-01-2000
People in the ancient world were very careful about how they approached their gods.
Edward J. Farrell 1-01-2000
To be a contemplative has traditionally meant leaving the city for a quiet life of prayer.
I do not view myself as a contemplative. I’d say that I am a "seeker" of God. This seeking has been a lifelong process.
