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A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
Serious Prayer
Journalist or academic with a serious interest in prayer? SSRC has your bag. Click here to apply for the New Directions in the Study of Prayer grant, sponsored by The Templeton Foundation and chaired by Columbia University’s Courtney Bender. Hurry up: deadline is December 1. Continue Reading →
Harrisburg's Mayor Fasting and Praying for Budget Balance
What’s a mayor of a major state capital to do? Linda Thompson has tried nearly everything to balance the city’s budget back into the black. Her lastest effort? Three days of fasting and prayer to petition God for better fiscal straights. From HuffPo:
“I am open about my faith and will be participating in the voluntary prayer and fast,” Thompson said in a statement. The city is now weighing a financial rescue plan presented by the state.
The fast and prayers, which will be facilitated by about a dozen Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious leaders, will begin at midnight on June 21 and end on June 24.
Perhaps it’s comforting to know Harrisburg’s mayor is no different from a hurting majority of US families. I’m just not certain she’ll have much more luck with God than they’re having. Continue Reading →
Harrisburg’s Mayor Fasting and Praying for Budget Balance
What’s a mayor of a major state capital to do? Linda Thompson has tried nearly everything to balance the city’s budget back into the black. Her lastest effort? Three days of fasting and prayer to petition God for better fiscal straights. From HuffPo:
“I am open about my faith and will be participating in the voluntary prayer and fast,” Thompson said in a statement. The city is now weighing a financial rescue plan presented by the state.
The fast and prayers, which will be facilitated by about a dozen Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious leaders, will begin at midnight on June 21 and end on June 24.
Perhaps it’s comforting to know Harrisburg’s mayor is no different from a hurting majority of US families. I’m just not certain she’ll have much more luck with God than they’re having. Continue Reading →
Praying for Hitch?
Last week it was reported that Christopher Hitchens, atheist and provocateur (and Iraq war supporter), was diagnosed with throat cancer. The dilemma this news poses? Writes the Telegraph‘s Cristina Odone and other (rather self-obsessed, we must add) believers with a “sneaking admiration” for the brash Brit: Should Christians pray for Hitch or not? We’ve harked the KJ for a few helpful directives. From Psalms 18:40 – 42 and Matthew 5:44, 6:6: Continue Reading →
"It is clearly time for a miracle…"
Yesterday, reports CNN, was designated a day of prayer by Louisiana’s desperate state senate. The decision was made by unanimous vote last week as a reaction to the continued gushing of crude oil into the Gulf. “Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail,” state Sen. Robert Adley said. As to how Louisiana’s legislators might address the cause of the oil spill, CNN includes only the following paragraph, which invites questions about whether “culture and livelihood” are culprits or casualties:
The resolution names Sunday as a statewide day of prayer in Louisiana and calls on people of all religions throughout the Gulf Coast “to pray for an end to this environmental emergency, sparing us all from the destruction of both culture and livelihood.”
“It is clearly time for a miracle…”
Yesterday, reports CNN, was designated a day of prayer by Louisiana’s desperate state senate. The decision was made by unanimous vote last week as a reaction to the continued gushing of crude oil into the Gulf. “Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail,” state Sen. Robert Adley said. As to how Louisiana’s legislators might address the cause of the oil spill, CNN includes only the following paragraph, which invites questions about whether “culture and livelihood” are culprits or casualties:
The resolution names Sunday as a statewide day of prayer in Louisiana and calls on people of all religions throughout the Gulf Coast “to pray for an end to this environmental emergency, sparing us all from the destruction of both culture and livelihood.”
“It is clearly time for a miracle…”
Yesterday, reports CNN, was designated a day of prayer by Louisiana’s desperate state senate. The decision was made by unanimous vote last week as a reaction to the continued gushing of crude oil into the Gulf. “Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail,” state Sen. Robert Adley said. As to how Louisiana’s legislators might address the cause of the oil spill, CNN includes only the following paragraph, which invites questions about whether “culture and livelihood” are culprits or casualties:
The resolution names Sunday as a statewide day of prayer in Louisiana and calls on people of all religions throughout the Gulf Coast “to pray for an end to this environmental emergency, sparing us all from the destruction of both culture and livelihood.”