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A novice’s guide to effective prayer
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) It's not all that difficult to pray, according to David Yount, a syndicated columnist and author of"Breaking Through God's Silence: A Guide to Effective Prayer (Simon & Schuster).
Here are what Yount sees as 10 keys to effective prayer:
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TOP STORY: THE POWER OF PRAYER:Prayer is best when it comes from the heart
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) This morning upon waking, David Yount said his prayers.
``Common people do not pray, they only beg,'' George Bernard Shaw once sneered, but Yount is quick to differ. He believes prayer is natural for all of us, on the lips of athletes seekin...
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TOP STORY: REMEMBERING MERTON: A gathering of mystics remembers Merton
c. 1996 Religion News Service
TRAPPIST, Ky. _ Twenty eight years ago, Thomas Merton set out from his monastery to explore the world of Asian spirituality. This week, part of that world came here to honor the late author for his pioneering work in religious reconciliation."Thomas Mer...
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TOP STORY: Common ground for Buddhists and Catholics abloom with new ideas
c. 1996 Religion News Service
TRAPPIST, Ky. _ In search of common ground between the Buddhist and Catholic traditions of prayer and meditation, monks, nuns and religious scholars have come together at a monastery here in the rolling hills of rural Kentucky.
The spiritual terrain t...
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TOP STORY: FIRST-PERSON THEOLOGY: Where was God when the plane crashed?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederick Houk Borsch is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. This article is adapted from his new book,"Outrage and Hope,"published by Trinity Press International.)
(UNDATED) God did not intervene to prevent the tragic crash Wednesday nea...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE: Does prayer help the medicine go down?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _"I'm an honest-to-God doctor,"said Larry Dossey, grinning at his pun.
Dossey _ a physician, best-selling author and executive editor of the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine _ is a proponent of synthesizing spirituality...
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FEATURE STORY: Modern-day Moses carves Ten Commandments
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments carved in stone.
Steve Williams stepped down from his Safeway semi-truck with the same religious edicts etched in two types of marble and slate.
Tradition holds that Moses r...
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A guide to women’s spiritual renewal
c. 1996 Religion News Service.
(UNDATED) Hundreds of thousands of men have joined the Promise Keepers movement, a Colorado-based Christian organization established in 1991 to renew men's commitment to their faith and their families. And now, women are getting into the act.
Here's...
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TOP STORY: TENSIONS IN THE WEST BANK: Ancient Hebron a key site in saga of Israeli turmoil
c. 1996 Religion News Service
"And Sarah died in Qiryat Arba, that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan ... and Abraham stood up from before his dead and spoke to the sons of Het, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you that I m...
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COMMENTARY: As others sleep, a monk-in-training keeps a prayerful vigil
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices"and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-"It's dark outside my window, yet the birds are already busy sing...
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