{"id":90,"date":"2009-08-18T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T11:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayerplainandsimple\/2009\/08\/does-prayer-make-me-smarter.html"},"modified":"2009-08-18T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T11:24:18","slug":"does-prayer-make-me-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2009\/08\/does-prayer-make-me-smarter.html","title":{"rendered":"Does Prayer Make Me Smarter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,540184,00.html\">Check out this story<\/a>: <\/font><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Andrew Newberg argues in his new book &#8220;How God Changes Your Brain,&#8221; that meditation alters our gray matter, strengthening regions that focus the mind and foster compassion for others, and calming those areas linked to fear and anger. 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