Christian Healing Ministries in Jacksonville, Florida is a charismatic organization that promotes and practices Christian healing. Although known for healing prayers, its worldview is more holistic and includes different kinds of prayers that address emotional, psychological, spiritual and bodily health. Deliverance prayer is of particular interest because it imagines a world of “spirit attachm...

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Water will undoubtedly become an ever more crucial locus of academic reflection, as Christiana Peppard’s concern that “wars the future be fought over water, not oil” (2014) stresses. Increasing water shortages worldwide and global warming in particular salt oceans, beg further from natural agricultural sciences, legal field, also theology. As a basic human right, is closely connected to peace j...

This position paper focuses on the content negotiation and adaptation of services in heterogeneous environment and this using the concept of universal profiling. We discuss our vision to achieve an advanced content negotiation. For this, we define a profiling schema that includes the utile description of the entire component that can participate in the final deliverance of services. The defined...

Since the inception of Medicaid in 1965, the program has seen extraordinary growth in expenditures and enrollment. From 1989 to 1992, the increases in Medicaid spending were the largest since the program began in. Enrollment in Medicaid by AFDC families grew from 3.8 million in 1990 to 4.4 million in 1992, almost a nine percent annual increase (Coughlin et al. 1994). During this period, states ...

Analyzing and interpreting the present is unquestionably more difficult and hazardous than moralizing about the past, but as Mr. Ross points out, it is only "living tendencies that man can work with, curb or guide." In the present-day tendencies in America, Mr. Ross sees the future triumph of democracy. He believes that the swarming in of low-grade immigrants and the mal-distribution of wealth ...

Considering the proliferation of information technology (IT), growing IT divides are still proven to exist today. Although some argue the broadband technology could be the platform for universal ubiquity, the benefits are still debatable for municipalities providing access. The authors discuss how public officials have decided to lead, support and usher in an era of rapid IT development by way ...