Teach me how to play like that,” I requested, after watching the old man shred on the guitar. All I knew how to play was ...

When his disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, he did not just give them a formula of words; he invited them to share his own relationship with his Abba. They had seen him in prayer, knew that ...

In the struggle to pray, we do not rely on our own strength. We turn to the Lord Jesus. We unite our prayers to his. It is ...

Sunday, July 27, is the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Genesis 18:20-32; Psalm 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8; Colossians 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13. In this week’s Sunday Gospel, the Lord gives ...

There are many forms and expressions of prayer. The human heart is diverse and the ways in which it approaches and speaks to God is also diverse. The variations of prayer show us the great mystery ...

To hear someone pray is often to know their innermost worries, joys and gratitude, and perhaps that’s why it appears in movies so much. Perhaps no other ritual so exposes the needs and longings of the ...

A serious scholar of religion, in the freedom of his retirement, was trying to find a path to the mystery at the heart of the human quest for meaning. He tried to distinguish what is original from ...

Lora A. Copley is an ordained Christian Reformed Church (CRC) minister. She teaches in a pastoral leadership program on the Navajo Nation and at Rehoboth Christian High School in New Mexico and is a ...

In the Academy Award winning movie “Gravity,” astronaut Ryan Stone, played by Sandra Bullock, has found her way aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. The sole survivor of her mission, she is marooned in space ...