I was well into my twenties before I began to discover the value of written prayers. Now I regularly use various prayer books of the church to direct my own time with God...

A day of community and good work thaws my icy soul, so that I’m aware of the paradoxical tenderness of the hunter like a low-grade headache. I feel the tenderness creep in as I go through the day...

This is the third time in the last year our church has embarked on a week of night and day, communal prayer. And of all of them, my time at 24/7 was decidedly my worst. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed Wednesday morning...

While many Christians have accepted a false choice between prayer and justice, they are inseparable in Scripture and Christian tradition...

While many Christians have accepted a false choice between prayer and justice, they are inseparable in Scripture and Christian tradition...

One of the worst tricks I ever saw pulled in my days of youth camp was when some friends of mine sneaked into another boys’ room and staged a sort of demonic break-in. They turned his Bible to page 666, drew pentagrams, and used every Hollywood cliché we had at our disposal to make it seem real. For kids who grew up like we did, these were ideas that were alternately familiar and exotic...