If a painter dared to depict Jesus' Jewish heritage and identity -- let's say by picturing Jesus preaching and praying in a synagogue (which he did regularly according to the Gospel of Luke 4 16) -- this would not only put that artist out of business but would most likely deliver him to the Inquisition for heresy.
This $98 digital version of the Koran -- the size of the smallest palmtop computers -- includes the Islamic text in Arabic and English, numerous commentaries, plus a function that tells Muslims when to pray and in which direction to face.
"Grinding" is a term of art: it describes an M.M.A. technique, pejoratively known as "lay and pray," in which a fighter takes the fight to the ground and keeps it there, in the hope of impressing the judges just enough to prevail.
And although Miller makes no reference to it, not a soul on that bus could be unaware that in 1994, at the same holy site, a Brooklyn-born observant Jew, a man in some ways not so different from themselves, gunned down 29 Palestinians praying in the same cave, which is also revered by Muslims.
If you are praying in a masjid (mosque), which is preferred, enter quietly--other fellow Muslims might still be praying and you don't want to disturb them.
In other words, the state of North Carolina is telling clergy that it is illegal to pray in the manner in which they see fit.
Praying in the Spirit is a great way to pray to Jesus.
Something about that photograph recalls a number of Surrealist classics: a picture of a praying mantis, which appeared in the Surrealist magazine Minotaure in 1933; Dora Maar's 1936 close-up of what looks like a baby armadillo, titled "Père Ubu"; and Salvador Dalí's lobster telephone assemblage, also from 1936.
Others wonder if they should invest in peacocks and praying mantises which, they speculate, will gobble up the little stinkers.
Fr Emmanuel prayed in Aramaic, the language in which Jesus first taught the prayer to his disciples.
