It may be timeless wisdom, but the prayer itself isn't ancient. Roy Morsch/The Image Bank via Getty Images I’m not sure when I first encountered the Serenity Prayer, or when it first occurred to me to ...

Thousands of people will attend the 64th annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning, an annual event attended by every President of the United States for decades. But how did the breakfast ...

President Dwight Eisenhower at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Feb. 2, 1956. AP Photo On the morning of February 2, 2017, more than 3,500 political leaders, military chiefs and ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged busy Catholics to say the “Jesus Prayer” throughout the day. Speaking at the general audience June 9, the pope recommended the short prayer at the heart of Eastern ...

Two weeks ago, a federal judge declared unconstitutional the congressional statute requiring the president to designate a national day of prayer. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court said that an ...

SOME years ago I got up one morning intending to have my hair cut in preparation for a visit to London, and the first letter I opened made it clear I need not go to London. So I decided to put the ...

As long-time readers may recall, the first Thursday in May, which is today, has been set aside by congressional decree to serve as the official "National Day of Prayer." In recent years, some media ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Muslim call to prayer will ring out more freely in New York City under guidelines announced Tuesday by Mayor Eric Adams, which he said should foster a spirit of inclusivity. Under ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Association of Related Churches (ARC) is thrilled to announce the release of the Church Planter Prayer Guide, a 10-day devotional now live on the Bible App.

In a provocative essay entitled, “Randomized God,” internationally renowned psychiatrist David Healy lays out a blueprint for a clinical trial to test the healing power of prayer. Putting aside the ...