Word: prayerful
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...tradition of public prayer at Harvard is an old one, but it is not maintained merely because it is old: it is maintained because it is a valid expression of our spiritual ambition. Even Harvard has not yet reached the state where it thinks itself beyond the assistance of Prayer...
...knows, as the modern Pascal might say, it may not work--but are we prepared to take the risk? I happen to believe that prayer on such occasions as this invites a sense of appropriate institutional modesty and places the occasion in the largest possible context: the mind...
...just such reasons our predecessors found prayer a useful enterprise against the institutional cheerleading and the innate hubris of the academy...
...prayer in question I made no effort to make all the religions of the world fall under the rubric of Christian prayer. Quite the opposite, it was and remains my view that the prayer of a Christian falls under the rubric of a God larger than that of the Christian faith. Rather than subsume all others under my faith, I was attempting to include my faith within the largest possible context of address...
...third case, I appreciate the writer's concession that prayer on such occasions might be valid, although I confess to confusion as to what a non-sectarian prayer is. Is that a prayer that could not possibly give offense because it says nothing that anyone could believe or disbelieve...