
Try a New Prayer Practice for the New Year
You practice prayer because it’s a tool for life. Trying to pray is praying. Practice is perfect.

You practice prayer because it’s a tool for life. Trying to pray is praying. Practice is perfect.

“To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself,” said the poet W.H. Auden. By that definition Christmas is one big prayer.

A tradition of placing a pine branch in the fire and making a wish led to an answered prayer.

Lightning flashed across the windshield and hood of her son’s car.

Advent means waiting, and waiting is rich, fertile ground for prayer.

A Utah woman’s prayer is answered as she and her beloved older sister find a way to reconcile a disagreement over their mother’s Nativity set.

Rick Hamlin shares a tip to help you when you feel like you’re on prayer overload.

A cookie and a prayer are the ingredients to an all-expense-paid trip for two.

As I’m praying for someone, I’ll think of all these good things I can do. Then I forget to do it.

A reverend shares her life-changing experience of visiting one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem.
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