Members of the Living Faith Christian Center congregation sing a hymn at a prayer vigil in 2016. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.) Listen God is an absolute mystery. No matter what we can say about him, ...

Our world is in a crisis. You can feel it. The future looks grim—more expensive, more divided, more uncertain, and more dangerous than at any time in living memory. Things seem to be spinning out of ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church makes this very point: “The Gospel according to St. Luke emphasizes the action of the Holy Spirit and the meaning of prayer in Christ’s ministry.” Jesus Christ was ...

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 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) What is prayer? In simplest terms it is talking with God. Knowing how to pray, however, is not enough. We must learn to pray effectively. That means we must pray in such a way that ...

A reader in Arkansas wrote me to offer observations and questions about prayer. I found his several emails interesting enough that I wanted to respond here. “I have long struggled with maintaining a ...

We are told that one should pray for: believers, community, compassion, courage, deliverance, an end to poverty, endurance, our enemies, everyone, financial stability ...

Christians are accustomed to thinking about life in terms of loving God and loving neighbor. These are, after all, the greatest commandments. The neighbors that come readiest to mind are human ...

The National Day of Prayer is today, May 4, 2023, when the nation’s faithful renew prayer lives, turn to God with heartfelt requests for this country and also give thanks for all we have as Americans, ...