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...meditative slogans and psychotherapeutic advice: "Align your mind with God and watch miracles happen." Then she saunters down the nave to "share" with the audience. "Anytime you think someone owes you something, it's a limit on your happiness," she counsels a distressed young woman. Bowing her head in prayer, she intones, "God has the power to bring happiness into our lives...
...1980s we had our materialistic orgy. Now we're experiencing a rebirth of early '60s thinking, a spiritual shift. We must learn how to be nonaggressive in order to survive." Rather than being a nonjudgmental license for self- indulgence, the course, she says, encourages service as a way of prayer. "It teaches us to relinquish a thought system based on fear and accept instead a thought system based on love." And for now, no one can pass that message along quite like...
...church had to spend $150,000 to repair its rare black- and-gold marble floor. The surface had been damaged by salt and grit tracked in by tourists wearing sneakers. And forget about stopping at Westminster Abbey, even on a Sunday morning, for a few quiet moments of prayer. "Now it's like Harrods three days before Christmas," says cultural historian John Julius Norwich. "Salisbury Cathedral is just as bad. The whole atmosphere is gone. You can't see anything, and people are talking in 20 different languages...
...more of them. To anyone unhappy with the legacies of the old Supreme Court, the new Supreme Court appears to be sending this message: come up and see me sometime. With several of the Justices scornful of court-imposed restrictions on church- state relations, new attempts to restore school prayer are likely, as well as laws that approve the use of government funds for parochial schools...
...sounds for different kinds of audiences. "I think the British invasion will happen again," predicts Mike Edwards, the lead singer of Jesus Jones. Fishbone combines an upside-your-head musical assault with some pointed lyrics. "Forgive us for we have no control or self-respect," goes Junkie's Prayer. "Grim reaper has cashed my life-savings check/ Thy rocketh and thy pipeth restoreth...