No Wrong Prayers

No Wrong Prayers

There is no wrong way to pray. Some prayers are better than others, but no prayers are wrong when offered sincerely. Even a less than sincere prayer, one that is dishonest because it does not reflect what the person praying cares about but instead is shaped by concern...
First Words

First Words

Any new relationship begins with some awkwardness, some embarrassingly foolish statements, a fair amount of caution about what one discloses about oneself, missteps and uncertainty as each party to the relationship slowly figures out who the other is and what sorts of...
Getting Started

Getting Started

Poet T. S. Eliot wrote that prayer is “more than the order of words in the mind.” Yet again and again we turn to some set of words, words provided by others or words of our own, when we set out to pray. This pattern makes sense: if prayer is about establishing and...