The Universal Desire to Worship Someone
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.
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.
Rev. Emily C. Heath | Posted 04.02.2012
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.
Charles Howard | Posted 05.23.2012
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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The radical presence of God cannot be controlled or programmed; it can only be experienced.
Rev. P. Kimberleigh Jordan | Posted 02.29.2012
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Daliah Merzaban | Posted 01.28.2012
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.
David Briggs | Posted 01.10.2012
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Charles Howard | Posted 12.03.2011
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.
Rick Hamlin | Posted 08.18.2011
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.
James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011
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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.
Mark C. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
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John Shore | Posted 05.25.2011
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Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011
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AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 11.17.2011
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Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
After years of decline and decay in mainline churches across the country, the vision of revival and renewal is clear.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
As a believing Hindu, I am ashamed of what is being done by people claiming to be acting in the name of my faith.
Mark Joseph | Posted 04.09.2012