(RNS) — Editor Sarah Bessey and other contributors to 'A Rhythm of Prayer' responded to the backlash with a statement Thursday evening (April 8), saying critics are missing the point of the prayer. “A ...

It is now 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen whose books and their many screen adaptations are beloved around the world ...

The tradition of writing prayer guides reaches back to the early centuries of the church, to Origen and Evagrius and to the many treatises on the Lord’s Prayer by church fathers. The tradition has ...

This is the book that first showed me that prayer is more than talking to God whenever I want, about whatever I want. In its pages, I met the monks and mystics and poets and pilgrims who have ...

(RNS) — Cole Arthur Riley on doubt, embodiment and writing a prayer book to a God she’s not convinced exists. (RNS) — The Sunday after the murder of George Floyd, the liturgies of Thomas Cranmer weren ...

A book containing a prayer by a Black female author calling on God to "help me hate white people" is causing a lot of controversy. The book, A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal ...

Father Andrew Menke, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Divine Worship, said that he hopes the potential new prayer book will be helpful for laypeople who want to minister to the ...

The Pennsylvania Dutch have a long tradition of folk medicine, also referred to as “braucherei” or powwowing. To many outside of the culture, those practices are perhaps best known because of a book ...

I have a new prayer to say after my husband recites Havdalah on Saturday nights. It’s called “A Mother’s Havdalah,” by Jessica Levine Kupferberg, originally from La Jolla, California, and is one of ...

A few days after having surgery for cancer, I imbibed Irreverent Prayers in great, refreshing gulps. I wept, I laughed, I felt entirely understood—and I wished I could give the book to all pastors, ...

The Sunday after the murder of George Floyd, the liturgies of Thomas Cranmer weren’t cutting it. In her latest book, Cole Arthur Riley describes logging in to an online Episcopal church service that ...

The U.S. bishops on Wednesday voted to move forward with the creation of a new prayer book for laypeople who work among the sick. Since the book still needs the approval of the Vatican, it might be a ...