{"id":146,"date":"2010-06-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/praying-for-gulf-oil-spill-help.html"},"modified":"2010-06-01T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T14:00:00","slug":"praying-for-gulf-oil-spill-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/praying-for-gulf-oil-spill-help.html","title":{"rendered":"Six Weeks Into Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Residents Pray for Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks into the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/01\/us\/01spill.html?hp\"> BP&#8217;s failed&nbsp;efforts to plug its gushing well<\/a>, many Louisiana residents are searching for comfort through faith.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They and others should check out Beliefnet&#8217;s suggested prayer, appropriately titled <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayerplainandsimple\/2010\/05\/god-stop-the-damn-oil-leak-we-obviously-cant.html\">&#8220;God, Stop the Damn Oil Leak&#8230; We Obviously Can&#8217;t!&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of other recent faith-related coverage of the Gulf Coast oil spill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/greenspace\/2010\/05\/gulf-oil-spill-grand-isle-residents-turn-to-church-for-solace.html\">Gulf oil spill: Grand Isle residents turn to church for solace <\/a>(L.A. Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.faithinpubliclife.org\/2010\/05\/faith_group_defeats_oil_compan.html\">Faith group defeats oil companies&#8217; effort to dodge accountability <\/a>(Faith in Public Life)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/The-Culture\/Articles-on-Christian-Science\/2010\/0601\/The-oil-spill-and-God-s-finger\">The oil spill and God&#8217;s finger <\/a>(Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bishop-katharine-jefferts-schori\/lessons-from-the-gulf-oil_b_591160.html\">A Lesson from the Gulf Oil Spill: We Are All Connected <\/a>(Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, for The Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religionblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/texas-faith-what-should-washin.html\">TEXAS FAITH: What should Washington do about offshore drilling?<\/a> (Dallas Morning News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/new-orleans-expectations-low-frustrations-high\">In New Orleans, expectations low, frustrations high <\/a>(National Catholic Reporter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/?p=34930\">Praying to plug the oil spill <\/a>(GetReligion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check back for updates &#8212; I&#8217;ll add more posts today and tomorrow, as they pop up &#8212; and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks into the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and BP&#8217;s failed&nbsp;efforts to plug its gushing well, many Louisiana residents are searching for comfort through faith.&nbsp; They and others should check out Beliefnet&#8217;s suggested prayer, appropriately titled &#8220;God, Stop the Damn Oil Leak&#8230; We Obviously Can&#8217;t!&#8221; Here&#8217;s a sample of other recent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Six Weeks Into Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Residents Pray for Help - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/praying-for-gulf-oil-spill-help.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Six Weeks Into Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Residents Pray for Help - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Six weeks into the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and BP&#8217;s failed&nbsp;efforts to plug its gushing well, many Louisiana residents are searching for comfort through faith.&nbsp; 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