Sometimes they mention prayers, but more often they talk about the ordinary tasks of home life, about paying the mortgage or the insurance, about how the children are doing in school or the outcome of a spouse's medical checkup.
And as governors condemned the Connecticut shooting and expressed sympathy for its victims, their statements, from Democrats and Republicans alike, were more likely to mention prayer than gun laws.
He mentioned prayer in 220 speeches, remarks and proclamations while president, wrote Smith, also the author of "Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush" and a fellow for faith and politics in the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, a Christian liberal arts school in Pennsylvania.
One of the few mainstream pop anthems to mention prayer so shamelessly, albeit with questionable motives ("All I do each night is pray/Hoping that I'll be a part of you again someday". This is about sex, right?), it was testament to Gary Barlow's unrivalled songwriting ability.
The court indicated that those laws enacted for a neutral purpose, such as meditation, would be permissible--but that those that endorsed or mentioned prayer would not.
Its first brand-new store with Target's next generation store design is set to open this fall in the Houston suburb of Richmond, which I can't write without mentioning my prayers are for all those suffering there.
The intention of mentioning that prayer is to focus on how sexist Orthodox Jews are.
This enduring celluloid juncture from 1946's "It's a Wonderful Life" can be summoned to mind by merely mentioning "the prayer scene". In it, a tearfully reduced George Bailey -- played by Jimmy Stewart -- sits at a bar and contemplates taking his own life, then clasps his hands and quietly asks for God's intervention.
The Douglass graduates were eulogized from the pulpit, and mentioned in prayers.
