The spiritual discipline of recording our prayers and Bible reading reflections is a practice rooted in Christian tradition. Three crows bickering on a rooftop against the sunrise, reads my journal ...

What this artsy trend among Christian women shows us about offline spirituality. Lately I’ve been more than a little intimidated by the pictures people are posting of their Scripture art-journaling on ...

How should one pray? Not even the Psalmists or the disciples knew the answer. The Psalms are filled with pleas for God to place words on the tongues of believers; the disciples were even so bold as to ...

Before my retirement as a healthcare chaplain, I was privileged to hear the prayers of patients who were hurting, sick and discouraged. They were heavenly appeals that I wanted to share with you, but ...

Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor is seen in a Sept. 22, 1959, photo, sitting on the steps of her home in Milledgeville, Ga. Elizabeth Coffman, an associate professor of film and digital media at ...

The last two Fridays, we’ve looked at the heart of prayer. We’ve been reminded that, at its most essential level, prayer is not just reading a list of requests to God, but rather, responding to God’s ...

Prayers are a particularly usable form of literature. And because they are composed by human beings to answer our most intimate needs, the stock of prayers always grows and changes. One scholar, for ...

A work of art created by David Schmidt, whose exhibit on the IDF was previously featured in the Journal, is a large “meshaberach” prayer for the well-being and the return of the hostages. While it’s ...