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Anne Lamott’s Unconventional Definition of Prayer | Super Soul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

By Anne Lamott — 2013

Author Anne Lamott says it’s easy to thank God when life is going well. However, when times get tough, she says, feelings of anger or complete silence can also act as prayer—as long as you’re trying to tell the truth of your heart.

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Worship

This book is a study of how Christian worship, viewed in its deepest sense, is a response of the human to the Eternal. There is first an examination of the basic characteristics, in ritual, symbol, sacrifice, and sacrament. The nature and significance of the Eucharist are thoroughly treated.

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Evelyn Underhill
2002
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A Gnostic Prayer Book: Collected Prayers, Mantras, and Meditations: Practical Techniques to Develop the Soul

This pocket-sized compilation gathers essential prayers, mantras, and spiritual practices for daily use, healing, protection, and more.

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Surekha Minati Keerthana
2010
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FindCenter Quotes ImagePraying is talking to the Universe. Meditation is listening to it.

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Paulo Coelho
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When Children Ask About God: A Guide for Parents Who Don’t Always Have All the Answers

Who made God? Can God hear my prayers? Why does God let people die? The author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People helps parents understand their children’s fears and fantasies, and offers advice on answering their questions about religion, the Bible, illness, and bereavement.

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Harold S. Kushner
1995
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Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World

From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it. An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises.

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Harold S. Kushner
2010
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Who Needs God

With the warmth, insight, and understanding that distinguished his phenomenal bestsellers When Bad Things Happen to Good People and How Good Do We Have to Be?, Rabbi Harold Kushner addresses a critical issue in the lives of many: a spiritual hunger that no personal success can feed.

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Harold S. Kushner
2002
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Soldiers Who Have Come Under Fire Often Find God

A study of American servicemen finds that those who have experienced combat become more devout

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The Economist
2018
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Doubt & Faith: A Zen Meditation

I follow a way of doubt. I follow a way of energy, sometimes even a way of wrath. But, in the last analysis I’ve found this way is one of putting down my opinions and opening up my heart.

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James Ford
2021
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James Cone

James Cone was born in Fordyce, Arkansas in 1939 and grew up in the small town of Bearden. There he experienced the life-affirming community of the black Church alongside the soul-crushing reality of white racism.

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PBS.org
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Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation 1968–1998

Risks of Faith offers for the first time the best of noted theologian James H. Cone’s essays, including several new pieces.

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James H. Cone
2000
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