Six years before he died, American philosopher William James filled out a questionnaire about religious experience. He was asked, among other things, “Do you pray?” His answer was forthright: “I can’t ...

“I prayed for 20 years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs,” said slave turned abolitionist statesman Frederick Douglass. His words give a sweet reminder of the dangers of believing in ...

Prayer move us closer to God, answers our petitions, and can even result in miracles. “And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” Matthew 21:22. But how should we pray?

Alec Ruby firmly believes in the power of prayer. How else, he says, could he be leading an effort to pray over every individual on the University of Kentucky campus — all 61,958 of them? Ruby is the ...

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 ...

This article is about Salat, the obligatory Muslim prayers performed five times each day. Salat is the obligatory Muslim prayers, performed five times each day by Muslims. It is the second Pillar of ...

Hal Taussig, a visiting professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary and co-pastor of Chestnut Hill United Church in Philadelphia, is the author, most recently, of “A New New Testament: A ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, the Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger. If ...

Survey finds very few respond to #PrayFor… hashtag campaigns. The Bible repeatedly teaches the value of regular prayer. “Pray continually,” Paul tells the church in Thessalonica. Pray “in every ...