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 ...

Everything I know about prayer, I learned from the late comedian and atheist George Carlin. Well, maybe not everything. Long before I was old enough to listen to Carlin's albums, I had learned the ...

Jesus' way of praying to his father throughout his life is a reminder for Christians that prayer is more than asking God for something but is a way of establishing an intimate relationship with him, ...

When our oldest daughter was a toddler, she had a unique way of speaking that very few people could understand. For one thing, she used the word “pa” and “ma” to refer to a host of different words.

Prayer may seem complicated or frightening, but anyone can pray! James Martin, SJ, shares some useful definitions of what prayer is and what we can learn from each of them. Fr. Martin’s new book, ...

Imagine you love the sport of tennis. You watch every match you can on TV. You subscribe to Tennis magazine. You buy instructional videos and read biographies of famous players. Then one day you pick ...

Do you feel vigorously alive each day? Or must you “bleed just to know you’re alive?” Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in A Letter in the Scroll, offered a remarkable insight into the traditional Jewish psyche: ...

In Israel few synagogues have official rabbis, or professional cantors or formal choirs. Services are mostly conducted by congregants, though they can’t always hold a tune. Every Jew thinks he is a ...