If you're a preacher, I know you pray for your sermon at least once a week. As you're walking toward the front on Sunday morning, your prayers are flying thick and fast, and all with the same theme: ...

The largest study yet on the therapeutic power of prayer by strangers has found that it provided no benefit to the recovery of patients who had undergone cardiac bypass surgery. In an unexpected twist ...

My brother-in-law almost never goes to church, yet he’s much more disciplined in his spirituality than I am. An addict nearly ten years into recovery, he begins every day with at least a half hour of ...

Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard’s insight captures the deepest truth about prayer: its real power lies not in altering the divine order, but in transforming the human heart through humility, ...

A LOT of studies on intercessory prayer have been published in recent years. This research has returned mixed results. Some studies conclude that prayer improves health, while others show no effect—or ...

image: In a recently-published study in the Journal of Family Psychology, BYU researchers explored how family prayer influences family relationships, finding a connection between prayer and a number ...

I was reading the research literature and came across something interesting about prayer.Just last month five researchers published their findings on studies they had conducted on prayer. In a journal ...

I know you pray for your sermon at least once a week. As you’re walking toward the front on Sunday morning, prayers are flying thick and fast: Help! You know people need to hear something more than an ...