The meaning of intercessory prayer is often unclear to Christians, so it is not surprising that many outside the church also get confused about it. The confusion is evident whenever scientists seek to ...

Do you pray? I believe most people do. When I was a kid, I was taught to pray, “Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to ...

Jeffrey Weiss recently wrote about planning his "no thanks" to cancer treatment. Here is my reply. Mr. Weiss, perhaps you expect a clergyman to critique your appraisal of the book of Job and to ...

God's humility is such that he has placed within human faculties the power to enact justice and because God desires justice, he trusts fragile prayers to hold together the fabric of the world's hopes.

But saying that does not mean that prayers are the spiritual equivalent of coins which we place in a Divine vending machine and that if we put the right ones in, in the proper sequence, we will ...

Andrew Fowler is the editor of RealClearReligion. He is also the communications specialist at Yankee Institute. The role of prayer in civil society has emerged in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic ...

The role of prayer in civil society has emerged in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting, and this may be a blessing of sorts amid the tragedy. This is because scientific research has ...

THANKS to all for your responses to the article, ‘God speaks through the drought’, regardless of the positions taken. This is a healthy dialogue that forces us all to think, learn from each other and ...

On Independence Day, the nation came together in a way no one wanted: We became united in grief. And as news of the devastating flooding in Texas spread, so did the calls for prayer. As teams from his ...