Like Erin Tribble, I can often get to feeling like prayer is another item on the to do list rather than a way to just be. I recently heard that Americans are working about 140 hours ...

My frustrated attempts at prayer have prompted me to get creative: I'm not much of a word person--spoken word, that is--which is one reason I find prayer, in the "petition-making" sense, difficult. I get tired ...

"What came is gone forever every time." --- Allen Ginsberg, "Kaddish" "God is always with me. I just don't understand why it has to hurt so much." John, slumped in a chair next to his hospital bed, ...

"You might as well bombard the Rocky Mountains," an engineer boasted in 1829 of Fort Pulaski , a behemoth of brick and moat strategically entrenched in northern ...