Supreme Court to hear school prayer arguments next week
WKRG News | Mobile, Alabama
The Supreme Court will hear a case next week that could determine whether prayer returns to public schools. The case centers on a football coach who regularly prayed on the field after games….The court will hear from the lawyers on Monday with a decision likely this summer.
Click here for complete story and video: https://www.wkrg.com/washington-dc/supreme-court-to-hear-school-prayer-arguments-next-week/
You’re probably praying the Our Father wrong.
America – The Jesuit Review | americamagazine.org | by Nathan Scheider
[An excellent article on the Lord’s Prayer, including a leading bit about Mary Baker Eddy’s interpretation.]
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,
Adorable One.
According to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, so begins the prayer that Jesus taught us. Not only was Ms. Eddy’s use of “Father-Mother” well ahead of 19th-century gender politics, but, well, what can one say about “Adorable”? It is adorable. It gives me new affection for the First Church of Christ, Scientist half a block from where my family goes to Mass.
The practice in which Ms. Eddy was participating here was not unique to her, nor to those similarly outside the fold of Christian orthodoxy. Rewriting the Our Father, it turns out, is an ancient devotion, practiced by the likes of Teresa of Ávila, Francis de Sales and numerous luminaries of the early church.
Click here for complete story: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/04/21/our-father-catholics-prayer-242872
How to pray the Lord’s Prayer with all creatures
“EarthBeat” on NCRonline.org | by Collin Cornell
This Friday, April 22, is Earth Day. I invite you to check out this thoughtful article on including our “non-human” neighbors in our prayers. Mark
“What if we prayed the Lord’s Prayer with all creatures?…
But it is high time we include the rest of God’s creation when we consider who is our neighbor….
Biblically speaking, marshlands and mountains, fungi and forests, wild animals and sea creatures all fall within the parameters of the neighbor-love commandment. As such, we rightfully pray for them — and alongside them….
Praying the Lord’s Prayer with all creatures certainly means adding their needs to the petitions we bring to God. But it also means joining our praying with theirs — connecting our worship of God with the worship that other creatures render. In other words, the nonhuman realm contains neighbors not just in the sense that other beings share hardship and want with humans, but also in the sense that they, too, have their own relationships with God….”
Click here to for complete story: https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/how-pray-lords-prayer-all-creatures
Divided by Prayer: 3 Pastoral Lessons from the Civil War
The Gospel Coalition | by Caleb Morell
…From the first firing of Confederate guns on Fort Sumter to Robert E. Lee’s surrender at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, pastors across the country faced a choice unlike any before in American history: whom would they pray for?…
3 Lessons for Today
Today, pastors sometimes face trouble for their pastoral prayers. Despite Paul giving this express instruction so “we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty” (1 Tim. 2:2, KJV), pastoral prayers often feel perilous….
Click here for complete story: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/divided-prayer-lessons-civil-war/
WS Chronicle | Winston-Salem, NC
[Thursday, May 5 is the National Day of Prayer in the USA]
LOS ANGELES – Pray.com and the National Day of Prayer task force are excited to announce a partnership to broadcast the 2022 National Day of Prayer event hosted from the Museum of the Bible on Thursday evening, May 5.
Now in its third year hosting a National Day of Prayer event, Pray.com previously hosted events concurrent with the National Day of Prayer task force. By combining efforts, the group that has been mobilizing prayer on the National Day of Prayer since the 1980s and the world’s No. 1 Christian app for daily prayer hope to mobilize an unprecedented number of participants for this historic observance around the 2022 theme to “Exalt the Lord Who Has Established Us,” taken from Colossians 2:6-7….
Local prayer gatherings will be held in all 50 states and several U.S. territories, with the annual national broadcast airing on television and radio, and streamed through social media at 8 p.m. ET. For station and social media information, visit www.nationaldayofprayer.org.
Click here for complete story: https://wschronicle.com/pray-com-partners-with-national-day-of-prayer-task-force-for-annual-event-may-5/
Could prayer take away physical pain?
By Evan Mehlenbacher | Tri-City Herald | Kennewick, WA
A few weeks ago, I was playing in a local tennis tournament, when the lower muscles in one my legs tightened painfully and threatened to pull me out of competition. I had played a straight six hours of tennis the day before and was now in my third hour the next day, with three hours to go. What was I to do? I fretted. There was no time to sit and convalesce, yet I couldn’t limp around and play effectively either. I settled on the one option I could see at the time, which was to pray for a quick spiritual healing….
Read the full story at: https://www.tri-cityherald.com/living/religion/spiritual-life/article259995930.html#storylink=cpy
Opinion: Supreme Court expected to rule in late June or early July
By Charles J. Russo | The Jerusalem Post | April 2, 2022
The Supreme Court has consistently banned school-sponsored prayer in public K-12 schools, whether at the start of the school day, during graduation ceremonies or before football games. Under the Equal Access Act, the Supreme Court has affirmed that students may organize prayer and Bible study clubs during non-instructional hours. Even so, school staff and outside adults may not actively participate.
Lower courts have mostly forbidden public school teachers from openly praying in the workplace, even if students are not involved. Yet the Supreme Court has not directly addressed such a case – until now.
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a case from Washington state, scheduled for oral arguments on April 25, 2022, could usher in more religious activities by teachers and other staff in public schools….
Read the complete story: https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-703016
Christian Scientists Consider the COVID-19 Vaccine
Tablet Magazine, November 18, 2021 – Maggie Phillips
Their religion emphasizes the power of prayer over human-made medicine, but it also leaves adherents free to make individual decisions about vaccinations
As the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issues its rules for employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccinations, discussions have heated up over who may claim an exemption to such mandates due to religious beliefs. And in these discussions, one religious group stands apart from the others. As a faith community, Christian Scientists—who believe above all in divine healing power over human-created cures and treatments—do not fit neatly into the anti-vaccine, vaccine-hesitant, or pro-vaccine categories. The beliefs and attitudes of Christian Science as a religion toward both disease and health put its adherents in a class of their own, even among other Christians….
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