As your family juggles with back-to-school shopping for daily planners and kid-approved backpacks, new routines, after-school activities, new teachers, and more, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. One way ...

Pastors offer a lot of short prayers. We pray short prayers beside hospital beds and in church hallways, to begin and conclude meetings and dinners, before sermons and to wrap up counseling sessions.

Terry J. Stokes, a youth pastor at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in New Jersey, was raised practicing spontaneous prayer. After he was confirmed as a member of the Episcopal Church in 2019, ...

There are moments in life when prayer doesn’t come easily. Not because you don’t believe. Not because you don’t care. But because you’re tired. Overwhelmed. Maybe even a little unsure of what to say ...