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A Prayer about the Death Penalty
God of Justice, in the United States, the death penalty is used as the ultimate form of punishment for heinous crimes. This barbaric practice is rejected in most other countries of the world.
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A Prayer for Those Sentenced to Die Behind Bars
O Merciful One, we ask that you send your tender mercies to men and women suffering unjustly in prisons for minor offenses.
Report: As of 2012, there were 3,278 prisoners serving sentences of li…
A Prayer for the Birds
Poet and Rumi translator Coleman Barks has observed that all the mystical traditions revere birds and their songs. They represent our yearnings for purity, freedom, play, and deliver "messages of in…
Nearly Two People
By Olivia Baliey
Someday, everyone you love will die.
You probably stared at that sentence for a minute, didn’t you? What a way to begin an article. So morbid. So terrible and cruel.
Death Cafes
Statisticians put the number of people who die each year at 56 million. That comes out to 153, 000 deaths a day, 107 deaths per minute. Death speaks quite loudly to some of us, Erica Brown notes in …
A Prayer for the Tornado Victims in Joplin, Missouri
May 23, 2011: Over 116 people and counting were killed when a devastating tornado struck Joplin, Missouri. Pictures convey the terrible destructiveness of this natural disaster.
Mary Oliver and the World of Everywhere
On a soft, snowy morning I read a poem by Mary Oliver. And in the afternoon, it came to me, a notice of her death. Too soon! I thought. Too soon to lose a talent of this magnitude. My heart rocked i…
Just a Thought
By Mia Ginsberg
Have you ever thought about what it means to live?
A Prayer for Victims of the Terrorist Bombings at Istanbul Airport
The shock of losing a loved one or a community member to a terrorist's bomb or gunfire is no small thing. And there are no safe places anymore – not movie theaters, dance clubs, churches, airports…
A Prayer for Those Affected by the Coronavirus
March 3, 2020: The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that "we are in uncharted territory" with more than 90,000 cases (and counting ...) of Covid19 worldwide. As of this writing, 73…
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