LONDON (RNS) — The vote follows the House of Bishops’ agreement last month to commend ‘Prayers of Love and Faith,’ a collection of prayers and readings for use in existing services. The bishops also ...

I've spent the last eight years asking that question. Having satisfied myself—if not everyone I've met—that there's value in using empirical methods to study prayer, I've thought a lot about how to do ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A middle school principal has been told it was inappropriate to have teachers give students a prayer asking God to help vanquish their "enemies" -- the standardized tests they were ...

The 37-year-old mother of six’s husband, Adam, took to Instagram to share a black-and-white photo of his wife in a hospital bed with a mask on. In the caption for the image, he explains that she ...

In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery. In fact, patients who knew they were being prayed for had ...

Can American legislatures open their sessions with a prayer? What if those prayers are Christian, week in and week out? Can American legislatures open their sessions with a prayer? What if those ...

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