The War Prayer

The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She described the book as her best work. She published it in1875. This book is preached about in the church. The church is a “healing church” the church is there for the words of Christ, but also the healing of others who claim that they didn’t need doctors to heal their sickness. The church had more than 50,000 testimonies of…

don’t drink much and never get drunk, and I’ll profess that I believe the Lord is my savior and died for my sins. Besides that, my logic takes over and I question too many things. Take, for instance, last Sunday in church. We’ve been called to prayer, so we stand and close our eyes. After a few seconds, when the preacher’s words were in full swing, I open mine back up! Then, I noticed something that I hadn’t noticed since my childhood.…

For my regions study, I attended a Muslim worship service in Lockport, NY. I attended a Muslim Friday prayer service. It is traditional during these mandatory services for men to attend and although sometimes some men cannot due to work obligations. This service was a less formal since the setting that took place among several university students in a room that off to the side. The Lockport Islamic Community center has been in existence in the Western New York area for more than 50 years. The…

Invitation to the Study of Religion, religion is defined on a scholarly level with a form of reductionism, by reducing things to actions, such as; “Sacrificial rituals, prayer, meditation” (Cunningham). The Muslim prayers, called salat are a way of making contact with Allah, their god. The word salat does not neatly translate as prayer but more like worship, or direct contact with God. After all “sacred spaces are religious centers at which the heavenly and earthly meet, sites that act as…

It is the basis of their relationship with Christ. Incorporating spiritual elements such as the prayer over the babies and the spiritual symbol of the pilgrimage that the infants will begin once the dedication is over, are all crucial elements in making the baby dedication successful. This spiritual component of this ritual offers the parents a peace…

that it would be just as meaningful and powerful if I simply prayed to Jesus myself without saying anything out loud… it felt like there were so many reasons not to pray! I asked the Lord for courage. A prayer I often pray is, “Make me bold, give me strength, and keep me humble.” This is the prayer I prayed over myself in that moment. Jesus was still asking me to pray for V.R.’s mom as she finished talking. With the courage that God gave me, I asked her if it would be ok for me to pray…

Most of the things that came to me were the small and simple things that really make a big difference in our lives. I really have been focusing on scripture study and prayer because those two have so much impact on your life especially prayer because with prayer you have direct communication to the Father. Something else that I also thought about was going to the temple. I am lucky enough to have a temple close to home at school and also where my family lives but…

Salat. The Salat does not take very long to recite and can be recited anywhere, as long as it is performed facing the direction of Mecca. In prayer, a person feels inner happiness, peace, and comfort, and that Allah is pleased with him or her. The faithful are meant to pray by bowing several times while standing and then kneel and touch the ground or prayer mat with their foreheads, as a symbol of their reverence and submission to Allah. The dedication to praising Allah five times a day is…

The Impact of Christianity Healings are said to be things of the past and from the Apostles, but I’m proof that’s not true. Many people hold on to Christianity as just a simple belief, they say it does nothing but give people hope. That statement holds me captivated, because I look at my life and see how I’ve been impacted by Christianity. For me, Christianity is not simply hope, but a part of my life! The effects of Christianity, physically and emotionally, have benefited my life. When I was…

other up and building the church up. An example of this is group prayer or studies. We were able to do both of these in our class practices. The two that had the greatest influence on me were Holy Listening, and Lectino Divina. In holy listening we were posed a question and one person would talk about it to the group. During that time the focus is on the person talking. Following there would be time for silence, reflection, prayer, and receptiveness. Then we would continue to do this around the…