In the Orthodox tradition, prayer is not only words, but also a spiritual state through which a believer expresses his feelings, experiences and desire for communication with the Creator. Prayer in ...

The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is one of the most revered shrines in Orthodoxy. At home, you can pray in front of her for health, family peace, protection from adversity and spiritual ...

Christ told us how to pray properly. “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words,” he said. “Do not be like them. Your Father knows what ...

People say God knows everything, but adults and children may actually believe something quite different. That’s one of the surprising findings from research with children and prayer being conducted by ...

There is a certain paradox at the heart of Christian prayer. One sees it most clearly in two of the central passages of the New Testament about prayer: “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are ...

The new pastor at Bridgetown Church, a nondenominational church in downtown Portland, Oregon, has a mission. Tyler Station, also a husband and father of three, wants people to get real about prayer — ...

Every year, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams commissions a book for the Anglican Communion to read during Lent. This year he asked Ruth Burrows—known as Sister Rachel in her Carmelite community ...

Stormie Omartian’s books—including The Power of a Praying Wife, The Power of a Praying Woman, and Praying God’s Will for Your Life—dominate the Christian best-seller list and are used in small groups ...

Not long ago a woman came to me for spiritual direction. As most spiritual directors do, I started by setting out some guidelines: how often to meet, what times, what direction will entail. Then I ...

Q. Since God is in the eternal present, and is all-knowing, he knows the destination of everyone and he knows the result of every situation. How, then, do our petitionary prayers have any effect on ...