prayer

Laurel Mathewson introduces new readers to Teresa of Ávila—and to the famed saint’s trustworthy spirituality.

The church’s old cork board reminded me that our heartbroken cries go directly to God.

God, like an attuned parent, hears not just the words we say but also the hidden parts of our hearts.

Kevin Hector presents theology as itself a practice of faith.

In Jon Fosse’s Septology, a tragic vision of faith shines with a luminous darkness.

Sometimes we can’t express what we want, even when we are in desperate need. 

If so, what did he mean?

Prayers for Children and the apophatic tradition

One of the reasons I left my childhood faith tradition is that I didn’t feel what I was supposed to feel.

I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene.

A conversation with community developer and editor Chris Smith about the Englewood Review of Books, spirituality for the journey, the messiness of life, and more

So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them?

A prayer of bare-bones presence with God

“How does a political gesture become a moment of prayer?”

Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”

I tried it—and I began to experience God in places other than my head.

His definition of prayer is simple: conscious conversation with God.

The poetic vision of Deluge reconciles Muslim and Christian themes.

Is V. velella a colony or an individual? When does sharedness dissolve into oneness?