Tag: prayer
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#MorningMonarchy: December 14, 2017
Cause of death, age of consent and burning initials + this day in history w/the Sandy Hook school shooting and our song of the day by Sufjan Stevens on your Morning Monarchy for December 14, 2017.
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Florida Rabble-Rouser Seeks to Open Civic Meeting with Satanic Prayer
from scpr.org: A Florida rabble-rouser wants the city of Deerfield Beach to allow him to say a satanist prayer at the beginning of a council meeting. Of course, Chaz Stevens’ request comes after the Supreme Court ruled that sectarian prayer before a government meeting does not necessarily violate the Constitution’s Establishment Clause. Stevens has a…
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Military Suicide Rate of One A Day – a Spiritual Crisis!
A First Principles Press article, “Psychoactive Drugs and the Military’s Suicide Crisis,” sees in present reality the one predicted by Aldous Huxley in “Brave New World,”where solution for state controlled loss of individuality and freedom is “…the widespread use of soma, a medication meant to salve the pain and sorrow of this human and social…
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Communion On The Moon: The Religious Experience In Space
from theatlantic.com: Before the launch this weekend of three human beings into the ether of space around the Earth, before they boarded their Soyuz spacecraft, and before the rockets were fired, precautions were taken. Not the humdrum checklists and redundancies of space exploration — assessing the weather, the equipment, the math — but a preparation…
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Colorado Wildfires: A Spiritual Appeal To Drum Up Rainfall
from The Denver Post: Colorado — in the midst of drought and devastating wildfires — now faces conditions reminiscent of 2011 in Texas that led Gov. Rick Perry to issue a proclamation calling for “days of prayer for rain” in his state. At the time, Texas had experienced 8,000 wildfires, with more than 1.8 million…
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$666k in federal research to determine prayer could not heal aids
from chicago tribune: Thanks to a $374,000 taxpayer-funded grant, we now know that inhaling lemon and lavender scents doesn’t do a lot for our ability to heal a wound. With $666,000 in federal research money, scientists examined whether distant prayer could heal AIDS. It could not. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine also…
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Obamessiah Proclaims National Days of Prayer & Remembrance
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11, President Barack Obama proclaimed this weekend, Friday though Sunday, as National Days of Prayer and Remembrance.