The National Day of Prayer is today, May 4, 2023, when the nation’s faithful renew prayer lives, turn to God with heartfelt requests for this country and also give thanks for all we have as Americans, ...

Last summer, I was tempted to give up on praying to God. Up to that point, my life felt like a Looney Tunes cartoon and I was Bugs Bunny trying to escape a haunted house full of closed doors that just ...

Members of the Living Faith Christian Center congregation sing a hymn at a prayer vigil in 2016. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.) Listen God is an absolute mystery. No matter what we can say about him, ...

There are many forms and expressions of prayer. The human heart is diverse and the ways in which it approaches and speaks to God is also diverse. The variations of prayer show us the great mystery ...

We have official prayers, depending on the culture and the background of whoever is praying. Here, we pray as a collective. We have individual, private, prayers that serve as a way to communicate with ...

We are told that one should pray for: believers, community, compassion, courage, deliverance, an end to poverty, endurance, our enemies, everyone, financial stability ...

A friend recently gave me language I didn’t know I needed: “communion of the helpless.” We were talking about intercessory prayer, pondering the mysteries of a practice so familiar yet sometimes so ...

Prayer is a gift—and it brings us back to reality. In the event of a fire in your home, the last thing you want to do is run around in the burning house (as is often seen on TV). The temperature at ...

We pray that most of them are still alive, but we know that some are not. Citing intelligence, the IDF confirmed the deaths of 34 of those still held by Hamas. On Sunday, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief ...