As we read throughout the Bible we run into common, ordinary people who pray. These people talked to God in response to him speaking to them or because of some need. Prayer seems to me to be the glue ...

Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024 at 11 a.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream with YouTube /not available in the PBS app In 2003, Emmy Award winning filmmaker, author and theologian, Dr. Norris J. Chumley and historian and ...

In a Lenten departure from my movie blogging beat, I’d like to share a development in my family’s prayer life that may be of interest to others. For years we have prayed a daily rosary, a practice ...

Recently I realized I was eavesdropping on a prayer, the first in the Bible. I hadn’t noticed I was witnessing humankind’s earliest recorded reply to God. It’s Adam, knocked-kneed in his reticence, ...

The Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity, which begins Jan. 18, takes place each year in the days leading up to the celebration of the Conversion of St. Paul on Jan. 25, when the Pope travels to the ...

Growing in prayer is not simply acquiring a set of special spiritual skills that operate in one bit of your life. It is about growing into what St. Paul calls “the measure of the full stature of ...

There are many and various ways for us to approach and encounter God. There is no one means of prayer has a monopoly over our journey to God. God welcomes and blesses every sincere effort we make to ...