At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week, delegates heard prayers and words of inspiration from religious leaders representing Roman Catholicism, the Greek Orthodox Church, Sikhism ...

The tradition of writing prayer guides reaches back to the early centuries of the church, to Origen and Evagrius and to the many treatises on the Lord’s Prayer by church fathers. The tradition has ...

This Sunday in the Scripture readings at Mass we hear about the importance and power of prayer. In our society, there’s a widespread curiosity in prayer. Even among unbelievers, people are interested ...

As Christians, we are called to be a people of prayer. Oftentimes, prayer is solely associated with asking things of God. While supplication is a part of prayer, it has always been seen as one of the ...

Prayer has always been the heartbeat of Christian life. For centuries, believers have turned to traditional prayers to s ...

The badness of these two books about prayer is more than coincidental: It suggests that prayer, on its own, is not a viable subject for study. After all, it belongs to the definition of prayer that it ...

Modern-day information sharing and communication technologies have experienced unprecedented advances in the past several years. Communication methods associated with cell phones, smart phones, email, ...

When someone is sick, we are asked to pray for them … and if they die, it’s often said that it was the will of God. But if they recover, the power of prayer is often given credit. Do you think enough ...

'Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a color TV . . . ," The lyrics from the Janis Joplin hit "Mercedes-Benz" tend to be how many view prayer -- God as cosmic department store. But is that an appropriate way ...