praying to God asking for a return to heterosexual behaviors and thoughts
vs. deciding to calmly decline the energy boost or emotional payoff of homosexual thoughts as they arise
Religion
loudspeakers on mosques
Request: Common in Islamic countries. Intrusive proselytizing or maintaning awareness of God?
blood of Jesus Christ for protection
e.g. saying a prayer asking Jesus to cover one with his blood for protection and purification --request
Bastet (Egyptian goddess)
the goddess of protection, pleasure, and the bringer of good health. She had the head of a cat and a slender female body --egyptianmuseum.org
Maximilian Kolbe (Catholic martyr)
Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz --wikipedia
Hanuman (Hinduism)
He is viewed as the ideal combination of "strength, heroic initiative and assertive excellence" and "loving, emotional devotion to his personal god Rama" --wikipedia
Metatron (an angel in Judaism)
In folkloristic tradition, he is the highest of the angels and serves as the celestial scribe or "recording angel" --wikipedia
All Souls' Day
also known as the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed and the Day of the Dead, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, which is observed by Roman Catholics and other Christian denominations annually on 2 November --wikipedia
burial, cremation
request: "Some teachings insist on one or the other, but is there a difference in reality?"
God's jealousy
Request: What does it mean that God is jealous? (Old Testament, Exodus 20:5, for instance)
seraph
"an angelic being, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, associated with light, ardour, and purity." -- Google dictionary
T/F: each person has a soul
request: "It's been an endless debate across religious, spiritual, and scientific circles on whether we as human beings have souls."
unction (religion)
the act of putting holy oil or water on someone in a religious ceremony, in order to make them holy or give them holy responsibilities --request
raising both hands/one hand in a gesture of prayer and worship
1 Timothy 2:8 says, “I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling”
In the Garden (hymn)
Author: C. Austin Miles (1913), Published in 245 hymnals