{"id":210,"date":"2010-07-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/07\/oil-spill-cap-prayers-answered.html"},"modified":"2010-07-19T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:00:00","slug":"oil-spill-cap-prayers-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/07\/oil-spill-cap-prayers-answered.html","title":{"rendered":"With Oil Spill Halted, Prayers Shift to Cleanup, Recovery Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three months after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/19\/us\/19oilspill.html?hp\"> BP seems to have gotten oil to stop gushing into the Gulf of Mexico<\/a>. Assuming<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/praying-for-gulf-oil-spill-help.html\">&nbsp;all those prayers have been answered<\/a> and the&nbsp;cap holds, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128559002\">the faith-based&nbsp;focus seems to be&nbsp;shifting to the clean-up process,<\/a>&nbsp;regarding&nbsp;the region&#8217;s envrionmental and economic recovery and how America&#8217;s energy policy should proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Some links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2010\/07\/evangelical-leaders-call-for-national-day-of-prayer-for-gulf-communities-hit-by-oil-spill\/1\">Evangelical leaders call for &#8216;National Day of Prayer&#8217; for Gulf communities hit by oil spill <\/a>(USA Today)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9GVNJVG0.htm\">Ala. Gov: Prayers answered with spill flow stopped <\/a>(Associated Press)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/07\/16\/change-of-prayers-in-the-gulf\/\">Change of prayers in the Gulf<\/a> (CNN Belief Blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/news\/2010\/7\/16\/gulf-presbyterians-divided-drilling-moratorium\/\">Gulf Presbyterians divided on drilling moratorium <\/a>(Presbyterian Church USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check back for updates, 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>Three months after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, BP seems to have gotten oil to stop gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Assuming&nbsp;all those prayers have been answered and the&nbsp;cap holds, the faith-based&nbsp;focus seems to be&nbsp;shifting to the clean-up process,&nbsp;regarding&nbsp;the region&#8217;s envrionmental and economic recovery and how America&#8217;s energy policy should proceed. 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