prayer
Essays for a time of isolation
Jordan Kisner writes about seeing the world and the self.
We need our screens right now. But what about later?
Ed Cyzewski’s prepandemic takedown of the digital formation of Christians is still surprisingly useful.
The pandemic has deepened my insomnia—and my prayers
As I lie awake, it seems right to join those who address God with different names than I use.
What are we really doing when all we can do is pray—or not even?
It may be Easter, but lament comes more readily than alleluia.
Reason and revelation meet—even in Aquinas
Denys Turner’s essays bridge the gaps that often frustrate us when we read medieval theology.
by Kyle Rader
When hope gives up on magical results
Since my son’s accident, everything I understand about hope has changed.
by Debie Thomas
Prayer isn’t a gumball machine
Toxic theology in the wake of mass violence
Why did I go to a charismatic worship service in an arena?
I feared it would last a week. Then came the moment of truth.
by Samuel Wells
Being a pastor within the secular frame means teaching people how to pray
Prayer is ministry, and ministry is prayer.
by Andrew Root
Monastic wisdom for a non-cloistered world
After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Paul Quenon wrote a memoir.
by Debra Bendis
Class trip to a mosque
I wanted to introduce my students to Muslims, not just to Islam.
Fumbling my way into contemplative prayer
I’ve been trying to follow Thomas Keating’s advice: learn to be silent with God.
by Debie Thomas
Trump's rotten fruit and my own
Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.
In Europe, even occasional prayer is on the way out
It's not just disaffection with particular state churches. People's religious orientation itself is gone.
The day I revealed to the other moms that I'm a bad Christian
Of all the things I could have gone donkey nuts over, it was "quiet time" that pushed me over the edge.
by Jamie Wright
Learning to embrace the in-between time
Good Friday gives way to Easter. We live our lives on Holy Saturday.
by Debie Thomas
Spiritual detours
Sometimes prayer takes us where we don't intend to go.
The unadorned self, living forward, and a great lake of beer
What I found when I looked up today’s date in four daily devotional books
Where are the dead?
Leonard DeLorenzo helps us envision where our loved ones have gone and how we relate to them.