Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Prayer Journal’

Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Prayer Journal’ - NYTimes.com

It is the religious sensibility reflected in this journal that makes it as eloquent on the subject of creativity as it is on the subject of prayer. O’Connor’s awareness of her gifts gives her a special kind of interest in them. Having concluded one early entry by asking the Lord to help her “with this life that seems so treacherous, so disappointing,” she begins the next entry: “Dear God, tonight it is not disappointing because you have given me a story. Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story — just like the typewriter was mine.” 

Who Wants a Christian America?

Who Wants a Christian America?

The First Amendment begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” and when it comes to the Establishment Clause, Republican ideas become a bit more nuanced. Here are the results of a recent YouGov survey. The question was, “Would you favor or oppose establishing Christianity as the official state religion in your state?”

Christians Need to Know about Alternative Medicine

What Christians Need to Know about Alternative Me... | Christianity Today

INTERVIEW 

What Christians Need to Know about Alternative Medicine 

Common practices like yoga and acupuncture have roots in other religions. Are we ignoring that? 

Interview by Ruth Moon
When Candy Gunther Brown interviewed Christians in the Pentecostal tradition for her 2012 book, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing, she made a surprising discovery. Many Christians who believed in the healing power of prayer were also using alternative medical practices such as homeopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, acupuncture, and yoga—practices stemming from non-Christian traditions. Brown, a religion professor at Indiana University, explores the faith underpinnings of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the ways Christian America has appropriated it. Why examine the religious underpinnings of...

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The Sick Are a Wealth for the Church

Pope: The Sick Are a Wealth for the Church

the Holy Father encouraged the sick persons present not to think of themselves “solely as the object of solidarity and charity”, but instead as “fully integrated in the life and the mission of the Church.”

 

“You have your place, a specific role in [all] ecclesial environments,” he said. “Your presence, [your] prayer, the daily offering of your sufferings in union with those of Jesus crucified for the salvation of the world [are] a spiritual resource, an asset to every Christian community. Do not be ashamed of being a precious treasure to the Church”.

Healing Testimonies - Christian Healing Ministries

View/Submit Testimonies - Christian Healing Ministries

Scripture teaches us that testimonies are the fruit and evidence of God’s work in and through us. In developing this testimony page, it is our goal to encourage the body of Christ with stories of God at work. We hope you receive a blessing by viewing these stories and also learn more about what actually occurs here at CHM. You can even submit your own testimony.

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