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, ...

How to pray effectively is one of the most important lessons every Christian must learn because prayer is the foundation of a strong walk with God. Many believers want to grow deeper in prayer but ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

The historian of liturgy Hughes Oliphant Old once observed that “prayer, particularly Christian prayer, uses biblical language. . . . The Bible contains a vast number of paradigms for prayer and a ...

For years I’d prayed as if my relationship with God depended on it. Now I view prayer differently. For a season in my Christian life, I was known as the go-to person on prayer. If you had a prayer ...