“I prayed for 20 years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs,” said slave turned abolitionist statesman Frederick Douglass. His words give a sweet reminder of the dangers of believing in ...

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Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Annual event brings millions together for day of spiritual inspiration Mary Darling and ...

Jesus' way of praying to his father throughout his life is a reminder for Christians that prayer is more than asking God for something but is a way of establishing an intimate relationship with him, ...

Prayer is foundational in spiritual transformation. So we interviewed Gregory Boyd, pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of Seeing is Believing: Experiencing Jesus ...

The Issue: Lessons that the city’s Department of Education can learn from the Catholic school system. As someone who taught in an inner-city Catholic school, I’d like to add to Michael Goodwin’s ...

Imagine you love the sport of tennis. You watch every match you can on TV. You subscribe to Tennis magazine. You buy instructional videos and read biographies of famous players. Then one day you pick ...