Following Hindu custom, the couple sat barefoot around a fire, praying for selflessness, humility and creative inspiration.
It so happens I am reading and using in my morning prayers The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits, along with a companion text, Hearts on Fire: Praying with Jesuits.
Some said he had occasionally attended services there, along with his roommates, but it was unclear if he had been among the hundreds who came to the church in the days after the fire to pray and pay respects.
Five months after those shootings, a man with a semiautomatic handgun opened fire on congregants praying in a Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
He doesn't try to take out the bad guys all by himself; he pulls the fire alarm and prays for help, just like you or I would.
Her father tries to set her on fire; her mother prays for her death; and after she nevertheless lives to see 40, Faat-Kine suffers fresh wounds from her grown daughter, who belittles the way she earns her living.
The families of the trapped men had waited for word of the miners' fate in a nearby volunteer fire department hall, praying and cheering one another in the long wait for the rescue to succeed.
A "pre-Square" artist studies his craft his entire life, struggling with dead, inert, chaotic matter, trying to breathe life into it; as if fanning a fire, as if praying, he tries to ignite light within a stone; he stands on his tippy toes, craning his neck in an attempt to peek where the human eye cannot reach.
There were ceremonies marking the recent 10th anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School, but very few people remember a mass murder just five months after Columbine, when a man with a semiautomatic handgun opened fire on congregants praying in a Baptist church in Fort Worth.
