prayer
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To friend and filmmaker Ava DuVernay, the work appears as both a weapon, “armor for one’s interior world,” and a prayer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
In his memoir he writes that he frequently recites the Shema—the central prayer in Judaism—while he is on a long drive or waiting for a plane to take off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
It often includes talking therapies and prayer but more extreme forms can exist.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
He began his visit at a cemetery, pausing in prayer in an area where unidentified migrants are buried in numbered graves.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Dalton puts his hands together in prayer and looks up.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
