The Arizona Legislature has a new policy when it comes to prayer. House Majority Leader Steve Montenegro, a Republican, adopted an invocation policy Jan. 27 that defines prayer as a "solemn request ...
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 ...
It is known that the holy fathers and ascetics of the old time used this prayer as a means for constant communication with God. It is believed that the Jesus prayer helps to purify the soul from ...
All Christians agree that it is important and recognize it as central to Christian identity and practice. Some Christians are very good at it. Others struggle with it. Many Christians secretly do not ...
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 ...
On March 31, The Forum gave front-page play to an Associated Press science story about a $2.4 million scientific study of the effect of intercessory prayer on heart patients. The supposed result of ...