To say that prayers are answered isn't the same as saying that God answers prayers. In the first case, a thought manifests as reality. You wish, intend, or ask for an outcome, and the outcome ...

(CBS) It's the eve of the National Day of Prayer, and on this day as on others, people are asking the Almighty for all sorts of things - from a winning lottery ticket to recovery from some dread ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Even in the New Testament, talking with God is mostly unilateral. But he does answer. “You’re not listening to me!” My daughter Emma and I were talking about a touchy subject: Why God commanded Israel ...

Volumes have been written about prayer and praying, but I didn’t learn to pray by reading what others have written about prayer. My parents taught me to “talk to God” before I learned to read. Even ...

Prayer is a confusing exercise sometimes. For the non-religious, it conjures up thoughts of compelled speech, rote memorization and even banging one’s head against a wall. We hear scriptural ideas ...

For years I’d prayed as if my relationship with God depended on it. Now I view prayer differently. For a season in my Christian life, I was known as the go-to person on prayer. If you had a prayer ...

I am sure there have been hundreds of thousands of books and articles written about prayer: how to pray, models of prayer, answered and unanswered prayers and prayer for specific times and situations ...

Readings: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Luke 17:5-10 John 3:16 is a hit. Who can say how long people have been cross-stitching it onto pillows or spray-painting it onto structures?