Praying at church or home for an individual's or group's wellbeing is just fine, but sometimes it's more effective do it in person, some religious leaders say. "There is something powerful about being ...

In his book The Secrets of Intercessory Prayer: Unleashing God's Power in the Lives of Those You Love, Pastor Jack Hayford taps into the unfulfilled longing many of us have to see our unsaved family ...

Some questions just will not die. “Why is there something instead of nothing?” is a perennial. Perhaps the second-most persistent question is this: “Is yawning contagious?” or “Why is yawning ...

In at least 3 paragraphs in the article, [1] Professor Gaudia asserts that God "does not exist in the material world" and "cannot be part of the physical universe." Those statements should be ...

Studying the efficacy of prayer is a sensitive topic: Depending on where you come from, you can either consider it offensive even to try to apply a scientific method to a spiritual process, or you can ...

A recent call to a locksmith led to more than I bargained for: a discussion of the Virgin Mary and intercessory prayer. I'd been testing keys from a box left by our new church's former owners when ...

“To pray with tenderness for others. We are all leaves on the same tree: each one that falls reminds us of the great piety that must be nourished in prayer, for one another. Let us pray for one ...

In the “Faith” insert included in the Nov. 30 Missoulian, Matt Runde promotes meditation but unnecessarily knocks the effectiveness of intercessory prayer. For Runde, prayer is some sort of palliative ...