Midlife Musings

A blog by John W. Kennedy

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Farewell to a Man of Prayer

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I attended the funeral of Larry Mather today, a day he and his family fully expected him to be home from hospitalization. But heart surgery doctors didn’t foresee complications before the New Year’s Eve operation. On New Year’s Day, as his family sang the Doxology around his bed, Larry went to his heavenly reward, four […]

Court Says Prayer Is OK

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

A federal appeals court made a sensible decision last week to allow ministers in Cobb Co, Ga., to continue opening county commission meetings with specifically Christian prayers.
The commission invites local clergy to deliver an invocation before meetings. Unsurprisingly, most of the pastors in suburban Atlanta like to pray in Jesus’ name.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued, […]