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Date: 09 March 2011 12:23:30
At the moment I am working through an assignment on "being" and "doing". I've found it really interesting and it has got me thinking about my socialisation (teaching of norms and values).
I realise that from very two different directions I was socialised into seeing prayer as a really important, powerful thing from my early teens.
When I was "young" and in the quite conservative evangelical Baptist church I grew up in an important part of the week for me were the weekly prayer meetings. I liked these times because they were the times all ages got together and chatted aswell as prayed. There were also some seriously "hard prayers" who went along, if you get what I mean. These were old people who prayed with a fervour which is sometimes lacking these days.
The other direction I saw prayer from was as a tool of non violent direct action. Going with my dad as I did to CND demo's like the one at Molesworth and anti-aparthied rallies and stuff I often encountered "radical prayers".
Reflecting this week my head hasn't been falling apart it's just been very greatful for the wide range of influences I was exposed to as a young person.