Why should people bother to pray? For many people, both religious and irreligious, this question does not seem to have a satisfactory answer. They still pray when desperate - who doesn’t? — but even ...

From a very young age, we are told, ‘If you find yourself in some difficulty, just pray.’ And so, with folded hands, we stand before an idol or photo of God in a temple or look up at the sky, and we ...

Opening meetings with prayer is a tradition as old as our country. Recent reports out of Mount Sterling, Ohio, of continued objection to the practice seem strange. The Mount Sterling Village Council ...

Every morning this month, a quiet ritual unfolds inside a large white tent in the parking lot of a north Minneapolis strip mall marked by boarded-up businesses. As cars roar by, volunteers lay out ...

Why should people bother to pray? For many people, both religious and irreligious, this question does not seem to have a satisfactory answer. They still pray when desperate - who doesn’t? - but even ...