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Promise + Swear = Prayer
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Promise + Swear = Prayer

What if prayer was never about religion? In this Field Notes, John Moos, MD traces how a moment in a yoga class, a week in Uganda, and his grandfather's rosary converged into a daily practice of speaking honestly to something larger than himself.

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