“Prayer” Articles

It’s unsurprising that a song about losing what we love speaks to Gen Z, “the anxious generation.”

The pandemic may have slowed things down, but we still feel the crush of expectations and demands, perhaps more so while working from home and sensing internal and external pressure to prove that we’re pulling our weight.

Erin and Hannah talk with John Starke about the way praying the psalms and practicing lament help us be honest about the overwhelming grief we feel in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sam Smith’s song, while mesmerizing musically, is rather empty spiritually. If we need a glimmer of hope but want it on our own terms—apart from being a disciple of Jesus—that hope will be rather flimsy. 

Hurricane Irma has become a giant Rorschach test, producing whatever revelations that the beholder wants.

Noname’s attentiveness to the world challenges and subverts an all too familiar understanding of salvation.

Prayer can bring tension and yet intimacy. C. S. Lewis helped remind me of its beauty.

Rituals of meditation, prayer, service, moral acts, and so on do nothing for bringing the dead to life.

“It seems that in our culture when someone wants to be “artistic” or “creatively daring”, they usually end up doing something that will offend church-goers — which, let’s just admit, is no big challenge.”