Worship

The Universal Desire to Worship Someone

Mark Joseph | Posted 04.09.2012

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The next time I see people with their eyes closed and hands raised to God, and begin to think it strange, I will remind myself that the desire to worship and praise is a universal one.

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Between Sundays: Holy Week And The Importance Of Weekday Christians

Rev. Emily C. Heath | Posted 04.02.2012

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To me, the most comforting part of Holy Week is not the waving of triumphal palms on one Sunday morning, or the flowers and joyous hymns on the next. It's what happens in between.

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Will Trayvon Martin Be Mentioned In Your Congregation This Weekend?

Charles Howard | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Worship, Christianity, Church, Clergy, Trayvon Martin, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Religion News

This weekend, thousands of houses of worship will gather to sing to, pray to, read about and preach about God. And yet, mention of Trayvon, of gun violence, racism and profiling, will often be absent.

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When Does Worship Happen?

Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 03.22.2012

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The radical presence of God cannot be controlled or programmed; it can only be experienced.

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Watchnight - A Different Kind Of New Year's Eve Tradition

Rev. P. Kimberleigh Jordan | Posted 02.29.2012

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When I participate in Watchnight, I stand within these historical traditions. It is a place for my hopes and anxieties about the future, as well as my regrets, gratitude and forgiveness about the past.

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Becoming Spiritually Punctual

Daliah Merzaban | Posted 01.28.2012

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When I moved from trying to fit prayers into my life to fitting my life around my prayer schedule, I instantly removed a great deal of clutter from my daily routine.

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Report: Religion Makes You Fat

David Briggs | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Worship, Shabbat, Church Supper, Religion, Judaism, Nutrition, Biscuits, Obesity, Diet, Faith, Church Dinner, Shabbat Dinner, Church and Obesity, Religion News

The multiple health benefits of an active faith life tend to stop at four-course Shabbat meals and church supper tables groaning with fried meat, biscuits and gravy, new research shows

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'God Is Everywhere Present And In All Things': Experiencing The Sacred Within Secular Music

Charles Howard | Posted 12.03.2011

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The life of faith is a love story. And in my life, the lyrics of many love songs have helped me to grow in love with God.

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Passing Along Faith, Father To Son

Rick Hamlin | Posted 08.18.2011

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This is the first Father's Day that I don't have a father to call or to send a silly card to, but I'll do what he did on Sunday, bellow hymns from a pew.

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How Long Does it Take To Look at a Painting?

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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My subject in these posts is how we look at the world. In future columns, I will be writing about all sorts of things, from hieroglyphs to ice halos, ...

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Unions Are Wrong to Refuse to Build the Mosque

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Those union members vowing not to work on the mosque may believe they're taking principled stands, but what they're really doing is exhibiting unnecessary fear and being emotionally and mentally weak.

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Showered With Stars

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

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When our annual revolution takes us through zones heavily littered with disintegrated comet trash, we see the spectacular sky shows called meter showers.

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Who Wins When the U.S. Restricts Religious Freedom?

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

If terrorists are able to not only attack us physically but get us to judge our neighbors by labels rather than the content of their character, turn our back on the Constitution and then restrict the religious freedom of other Americans, we all lose.

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African Tribe Worships Barbra Streisand's Nose

Mark C. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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MAHAJANGA, Madagascar - An African tribe is convinced that Barbra Streisand's nose holds special powers -- and prays to it daily for rain, fertile ...

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4 E-Z Ways to Deepen Your Relationship with God/The Big Spirit

John Shore | Posted 05.25.2011

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People are designed to relate in the richest possible terms to the divine -- to God, The Universal Mind, The Big Picture, The Greater Good, the Spirit in the Sky, etc.

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An Abiding Presence of Faith: Protecting Harlem's African Burial Ground and Churches Under Threat, Part I

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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What is now the Metropolitan Transit Authority's 126th Street bus depot sits atop a colonial-era burial ground for African slaves and free blacks.

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US Muslims Debate Choice Of Arabic, English In Sermons

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 11.17.2011

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Sana Rahim was born in the cowboy country of southeastern Wyoming, to Pakistani parents who had emigrated so her father could earn a doctorate. She s...

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How About the Church of Hope?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

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An article in the Washington Post On Faith section in response to their question: President-elect Obama hasn't been to church in three weeks, saying h...

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A Church of Misfits

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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After years of decline and decay in mainline churches across the country, the vision of revival and renewal is clear.

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Hindu Fundamentals are Under Attack

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a believing Hindu, I am ashamed of what is being done by people claiming to be acting in the name of my faith.

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