The call to prayer demands a response. We can either hear the call and begin to pray, or we avoid and neglect the call. And so, whether we say yes or no, a response is given. If we choose not to pray, ...

Finally, illustrator Candace Camling has two new titles to help the littlest ones pray: Learn to Pray My First Hail Mary ...

“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.” Romans 8:26 As we draw closer to ...

There are many ways to pray. But three weeks into the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, I can say this: The Ignatian Way, for me, is like filling up with high-octane gas. They had me at Day 1, ...

Buried deep in the Norton Anthology, George Herbert’s little poem with the unpretentious title “Prayer” is easy to miss. Decorously contained on a half-page with regular rhyme and punctuation, it ...

Volumes have been written about prayer and praying, but I didn’t learn to pray by reading what others have written about prayer. My parents taught me to “talk to God” before I learned to read. Even ...

Do you want to learn to pray prayers that are heard in Heaven and answered in your life? In James 4, there are a few powerful principles that teach us about the kind of prayer life we need to have. • ...

“I prayed for 20 years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs,” said slave turned abolitionist statesman Frederick Douglass. His words give a sweet reminder of the dangers of believing in ...

By Mark Wilmoth Do your prayers usually begin with a phrase like “Dear Father in Heaven”? Bible scholar R.C. Sproul wrote in 1996: “A few years ago, a German scholar was doing research in New ...

Rabbi, please say a prayer for my wife; she was just diagnosed with cancer, and is terrified. Rabbi, my husband has been out of work for months, and he has a really promising interview this afternoon.