I want to defend written prayers. When I teach people how to pray, they have this idea that prayers “straight from the heart” are the only authentic prayers, and that is, quite simply, bologna.

Sometimes, a situation is so surreal, so radically different from anything one has ever experienced before — that old words don’t feel sufficient, that new prayers must be imagined and transcribed in ...

The Christian tradition in which I was raised looked derisively at written prayers. Extemporaneous prayers were preferred. As I found where God was leading me, I discovered our Christian forebears who ...

Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of November is for the prevention of suicide. “Let us pray that those who are ...

So, can a prayer written by AI be “real”? Nearly every prayer we use is, in one sense, borrowed. The Psalms, Cranmer’s ...

He’s saying your prayers! A Park Slope pastor offers down-and-out locals a direct line to the man upstairs in the form of a special mailbox outside his Seventh Avenue church where needy passersby can ...

A new feature at a local YMCA was inspired by a sacred place in the Holy Land. The Earlywine Park YMCA recently dedicated a prayer wall that allows Y patrons to leave their written prayer requests to ...