Prayer is the motif that pervades the sacred texts today. In the first reading from Acts, Luke offers us a glimpse of the nascent church after the ascension of Jesus. Having retreated to the upper ...

Q: Are we always supposed to kneel when we pray? Or does the Bible give us some other command about how we should pray? I don’t want to be disrespectful toward God. — J. McM . A: The Bible actually ...

I grew up in a relatively prayerful family and before joining boarding school; we all always gathered in the girls’ bedroom and knelt around the bed to pray before we went to bed. It made us feel ...

How do you pray? By that I don’t mean what kind of prayer do you do, but how do you pray physically? Do you kneel? Sit? Lie down? That’s something that’s often overlooked by spiritual writers but ...

Q Why is it Jews don't kneel to pray? I'm Jewish myself, and sometimes I feel the need to pray in this position, but I feel awkward, as I was taught not to do this. -- L., via email A The Hebrew Bible ...

Stuck to my kitchen window is a small wind chime given to me by my best friend, a wonderful person who has made only one bad choice in her life -- to live two states away from me. The chime has a tiny ...

Mother and daughter sit on a tree at the beach Source: Hakase_/iStock, used with permission A few years ago, I was on a flight traveling from Paris back to the United States when the flight was ...