Commentary: The Lord’s Prayer is considered a blueprint for how we should honor God in Heaven and practice good, ethical and ...

The challenge to pray is oftentimes found in the fallen definition we give to it. We think that prayer only works when we get what we want. If we ask for something in prayer, then God is supposed to ...

The Talmud states that the source of prayer is the biblical phrase “And you shall serve Him with all your heart” (Deuteronomy 11:13). Service is usually associated with action. One can serve with ...

In our call to prayer, we are given the powerful and provocative image of Mary of Nazareth, God-Bearer, First Disciple, and Mother of the Church. No one followed the Lord’s life of prayer better than ...

As a child, I attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. Every day at morning services, I was mesmerized by an older man named Rabbi Chaim Gelb. I can still remember Reb Chaim calling out “Amen.” Sometimes he’d ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical Christianity has given me everything my heart had longed for in prayer. A spontaneous religion left the author to his own resources, and he had already seen the limits to that. ...

D.G. Hart’s review of Mark A. Noll’s book “America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911” (Bookshelf, April 27) reminds me of a related religious practice prevalent in ...

A Facebook post paraphrases a translation of the Lord's Prayer by mystic, author, and scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz. As Douglas-Klotz wrote in "Prayers of the Cosmos" (published in 1990), "The ...