Prayer can be such a beautiful, simple, and complicated thing at the same time. People pray in many different ways, and still, our loving God hears every prayer. Recognizing or understanding His ...

With all the turmoil and fear over the elections, radical terrorism, rising prices, and unforseen natural disasters, we desperately need God's presence here on earth. When I was writing this article, ...

In the spiritual life, the emphasis is always on prayer as a vital and personal relationship with God the Father through his Son, Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Holy Spirit. This emphasis on ...

People often seek protection primarily for the feeling of safety, direction, and support that it can provide in a world of uncertainty. Through prayer, people can experience emotional calmness while ...

Throughout the High Holidays, the 10-day period that begins with Rosh Hashanah and ends with Yom Kippur, Jews pray to be ...

“When the Son of Man comes, will he find any faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). We are hearing a lot about “quid pro quo” in the news these days. This Latin phrase describes any transaction in which ...

Every year, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams commissions a book for the Anglican Communion to read during Lent. This year he asked Ruth Burrows—known as Sister Rachel in her Carmelite community ...

As many saints have testified, and many Christians affirm, the life of prayer is not a piece of cake. It’s hard work. It requires great effort to keep a prayer routine in the midst our daily ...

“There are prayers that are answered only after one hundred years. We learn this from Abraham [who was not blessed with a son until after he was a hundred years old]…there are prayers that are ...