Prayer

Prayer might be defined as a conversation between a person and someone not physically present (i.e., a Saint or God). Many people take prayer very seriously, and there are forums and blogs devoted specifically to prayer.  Prayer can also be interchangable with the word "thought" in pleasantries such as "I'll be thinking of you" or "My thoughts are with you."

Bloggers many times use the tag prayer in the Judeo-Christian sense of the word, and may tag a post in such a way to illicit prayer from their readers or alternatively to communicate that they are available for prayer or are praying for a specific person. Prayer may also be used in conjunction with a book review or movie review that covers the topic. However, other world religions such as Islam and Hinduism use variations on the same idea, and followers use prayer as a tag as well.

Prayer is generally one of the less devisive tags one can use when speaking about ones faith and religion.  To pray for someone or to ask for prayer is a gesture which builds bridges rather than tears them down.  Atheists, specifically, however might see prayer as a problem because it promotes hope and faith in something they see as mythical and ultimately untrue.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Prayer”

• Interesting prophetic insight : Detroit, Michigan : Time Magazine

  
  John Burton Ministries : PRAY the REVOLUTION — Authority: 119
  The week of a key ministry event with Chuck Pierce, Barbara Yoder and other prophetic leaders in Ann Arbor, I received a strong prophetic word regarding Detroit .  Time Magazine just reported on an element that I mentioned in the prophecy. Here’s the word I received: “Now, now, now! The church must arise ...
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• Hindus call for global day of fasting and prayer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Hindus are calling for January seven next for observation as day of fasting and prayer worldwide.Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that in view of continuing global economic downturn, Hindus should show camaraderie to the brethren who were suffering from the financial crisis by ...
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• Prayer for the Week – Proper 28

  
  Sinaiticus — Authority: 111
  Proper 28 Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you ...
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• The Formula for Greatness: Reporting from #GodBelongsInMyCity

  
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• Counterfeit Gods

  
  My World — Authority: 139
  Just finished Tim Keller’s new book Counterfeit Gods:  The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters . I read this in prep for my talk on the Lord’s prayer. I know that it doesn’t have anything to do with the Lord’s prayer, but I believe the Lord’s prayer shows the idols ...
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• An Affirmation

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 165
  Great Spirit that is all we are Whose myriad names contain The recognition of our oneness And the continuation of our will To live in love Here, as in the beyond. We are forever sustained read more
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• Craig Hensburger Has Daughter’s Mother Thrown in Jail Because Daughter Refuses to Be With Abuser

  
  Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody Abuse — Authority: 144
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• Craig Hensburger Has Daughter’s Mother Thrown in Jail Because Daughter Refuses to Be With Abuser

  
  Family Court Crisis-Abusers Getting Custody..!! — Authority: 441
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• Chabad House: still pocked with bullet marks, still remembering its rabbi (One year after 26/11)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  By Gayatri MakhijaniMumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) “You are never going to stop anybody who steps inside the Chabad House” - those were the oft-repeated words of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, head of the Mumbai headquarters of the Chabad House. And that was the instruction followed on Nov 26, 2008 when terrorists stormed in, ...
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• Video – FiNews #59: 1st Eucharistic Procession Indiana U

  
  AirMaria.com — Authority: 484
  FI News #59 – First ever Eucharistic Procession around the Indiana University campus ( 04min) >>> Play Ave Maria! The FIs worked with  St Paul the Apostle parish, and the Student Life Team of the Newman Center in Bloomington, IN to conduct the first Eucharistic Procession around ...
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• St. Teresa on the prayer of quiet, continued

  
  The Lewis Crusade — Authority: 107
  "Thus when the will finds itself in this quiet, . . . it shouldnt pay any more attention to the intellect than it would to a madman" ( Way of Perfection , Ch. 31, para. 8). Interestingly, St. Teresa de Jesus seems to hold, with C. S. Lewis later, that the will is the most important faculty of the human soul. It is ...
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• armour or flesh?

  
  The Shiny Headed Prophet — Authority: 124
  A  little while ago I posted about my preparation before going on to the streets and hanging in the coffee bar or pub. The time of prayer was quite Paul-ine in its method and based on the Gods armour passage in Ephesians 6. I have a new spiritual director and when she heard this, Sister Martha, a Dominican nun in ...
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• November 16, 2009

  
  Radically Altered — Authority: 128
  Here is todays prayer: Prayer for Teenagers With each new day that dawns I am growing up, O Lord. Its not too soon to start thinking of what I want to be. Its very hard, I think, to make the right decision but I pray that you will help and guide me. Show me what to do, let me share, someday, my talents where theyre ...
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• There is never a dull moment with Sai Baba

  
  Sathya Sai Baba - Life, Love & Spirituality — Authority: 127
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• Psalm 109:8

  
  Conservative Thoughts — Authority: 477
  Got this from a friend: We were in Pigeon Forge over the week end.  We left to come home on Sunday.  Traffic was moving slowly, and a car in front of us had an Obama bumper sticker on it.  It read:  “Pray for Obama.  Psalm 109:8″.   Mike’s Bible was lying on the dash board & he got it & ...
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• Prayers of the people | November 15

  
  saint benedicts table — Authority: 118
  I call the community into a time of prayer. God we gather as your servants this evening, offering up our prayers and petitions to you.  In our desire to know you better, may we be patient and willing listeners of your voice.  May our lives be replete with love, assuring that we never mistake our living as being ...
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• Why does God sing?

  
  Vivificat! — Authority: 500
  Folks, I continue with my “creative hiatus” as I study the question “Can a Christian pray like a Jew?” with a little more attention. In the meantime, I want to share with you something related to the subject, written by my better known colleague Father Stephen, an Orthodox Christian priest, communicator, and ...
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• More press for independent minyanim

  
  Jewschool — Authority: 479
  (Crossposted to Mah Rabu .) Independent minyanim have been popping up all over the press lately. First of all, they make an appearance in this CNN piece on “New Jews”, but that deserves a whole snarky post of its own, so I’ll leave it alone for now. Two articles focus on independent minyanim: one in the ...
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• iPadre #169 – Don’t Forget Your Friends

  
  SQPN — Authority: 132
  November is a very important month in the life of the Church!  It is a special time that we recall the faith departed – all the men and women who have departed this life, but were not quite ready to enter the Kingdom.  We’ll talk a little bit about Purgatory, I’ll read the “Dies Irae”.  We also take some ...
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• Not Quite Getting the Point

  
  Blogging with Badger — Authority: 134
  I like Andrew Sullivan. I really do. He’s a conservative, but much more in the Tory tradition than the current crop of lunatic tea-baggers out there who call themselves conservatives. I don’t agree with him on everything, but he is a good writer and entertaining. Sadly, like all of us, he has his blind spots. His ...
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