I suppose I learned to pray like many people in the mainline church do: I memorized prayers for mealtime and bedtime, and I listened to what felt like the excessively long prayers of the people at ...

Jewish liturgy can feel archaic or demanding, but its oldest words still have something to say to our most contemporary struggles, writes the host of the “Thoughts and Prayers” podcast. Several years ...

As a young, soon-to-be ordained pastoral candidate, Eugene Peterson had clear expectations about what ministry would look like: “From fairly extensive reading about pastor and priest predecessors, I ...

This is our editor-in-chief’s weekly newsletter. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox on Friday afternoons. Last Shabbat, I skipped most of services to go on a walk where a rabbi taught me how ...

The author's Rosaries. (Courtesy of James Martin, S.J.) About 15 years ago, I was invited, along with two Jesuit friends, on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Our hosts were members of the Order of Malta. I ...

My wife has always described me as unflappable, on an even emotional keel pretty much all the time. Sometimes she means this as a compliment, and occasionally not. She’s had nightmares in which we’re ...

Leaders from Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa offer guidance on interceding for believers suffering for their faith. Each November, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) calls for an ...

Some of my favorite verses are found in Romans 8:26-27: “The Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too ...

This election might have you praying for a swift death, or indeed the destruction of all life on Earth. I get that. I really, really get that. The campaign drives me insane, too. And when it does, ...

WASHINGTON — For 63 years, presidents have spent the morning of the first Thursday in February gathering with members of Congress and evangelical Christians for the National Prayer Breakfast. For ...