How should one pray? Not even the Psalmists or the disciples knew the answer. The Psalms are filled with pleas for God to place words on the tongues of believers; the disciples were even so bold as to ...

Tess Taylor reviews Flannery O'Connor's A Prayer Journal written when the late author was in her early 20s. Every so often, as scholars sort through old papers, they find a rare and wonderful gem, ...

Augustine’s Confessions is the story of a soul. It is the account of a soul that once had a rigid, fairly intelligible story for itself. For some thirty years, Augustine told the same story of his ...

When I was diagnosed with a rare muscle disease a dozen years ago, it hit me that I didn’t believe in God. Maybe “hit me” is too strong a way to put it. I just gradually realized that I wasn’t praying ...

The last two Fridays, we’ve looked at the heart of prayer. We’ve been reminded that, at its most essential level, prayer is not just reading a list of requests to God, but rather, responding to God’s ...

The single greatest biblical illustration of prayer comes in Luke, of course, also known as the gospel of prayer. All that pre-Christmas business with angel visits and a girl in the driver’s seat and ...

A work of art created by David Schmidt, whose exhibit on the IDF was previously featured in the Journal, is a large “meshaberach” prayer for the well-being and the return of the hostages. While it’s ...