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Category Archives: Prayer
Don’t pray for me Argentina
Well, I only stuck with the title because I think Hitchens would see the humor and agree.
Posted in Atheism, Prayer, Religion Blog, Religious Belief
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Christian Science new truce with medicine
NY Times reports the church rethinks its opposition to members seeking medical treatment. [F]aced with dwindling membership and blows to their church’s reputation caused by its intransigence concerning medical treatment, even for children with grave illnesses, Christian Science leaders have … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, James, Medicine and Health, Prayer, Religious Belief, Theorists
Tagged Christian Science, healing, Mary Baker Eddy, medical treatment, prayer, William James
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Blessing our tech devices
Over at Sistertech.com a news item about the blessing of smart phones and tech devices.
Forgiveness and prayer
New study on prayer and forgiveness. Here are the experiments: The new study, published in the journal Psychological Science, draws data from 119 people over two experiments. In the first, participants assigned to say a single prayer for their romantic … Continue reading
Posted in Prayer, Religion Blog
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Asking a doctor for prayer
When do doctors or other medical professionals enter into prayer with their patients? In a study published in a recent issue of the Souther Medical Journal sociologists from Brandeis and Rice Universities examined patient requests for prayer. The researchers conducted … Continue reading
Posted in Death and Immortality, PHIL 500, Prayer, Religion Blog
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Did we pray hard enough?
Politics aside, this brings up a problem: the problem of prayer. Does God or the Cosmos or whatever hear our prayers? Are they “answered”? What happens if we make a mistake when we pray?
Posted in Politics, Prayer, Religion Blog
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