It's not just disaffection with particular state churches. People's religious orientation itself is gone.
prayer
Of all the things I could have gone donkey nuts over, it was "quiet time" that pushed me over the edge.
Good Friday gives way to Easter. We live our lives on Holy Saturday.
Sometimes prayer takes us where we don't intend to go.
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.
The main purpose of prayer is to enjoy God.
Distracted by our own devices
I’ve become the sort of person who checks her phone constantly. I did not have to go this way.
Coakley's kind of theology requires more than claims. It needs prayer.
In response to our request for essays on the subject road, we received many compelling reflections. Here is a selection.
And what would happen if we didn't?
Dying faithfully
Whether we're dying or living with grief, there are faithful ways to do so. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre points us in the right direction.
We seem to always want something—anything—to happen. This has implications for the life of prayer.
Azra Akšamija and Jo Murphy make art that points to things made invisible by fear—both our own fear and our society's.
I love a good mountaintop experience. It’s a moment when everything changes. Insight flares up in the mind, illuminating the moment, the experience, the problem in a whole new way. You’re never quite the same again. One such moment for me happened in prayer when I was on a three-day silent retreat.