Our Weakness, His Strength

The folklore surrounding Poland's famous concert pianist and prime minister, Ignace Paderewski, includes this story, which though fictional provides ...

Time to Pray

We have had instruction until we are hardened; it is now time for us to pray.

Power from the Story

Sometimes telling a story has as much effect on the teller as it does the listeners. Martin Buber, the Jewish philosopher, recalls:

"My grandfather ...

Fortified Within

There are two ways of handling pressure. One is illustrated by a bathysphere, the miniature submarine used to explore the ocean in places so deep that ...

Don't Blow Your Own Horn

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing--if it is only yours, it won't wake the dead; it will simply disturb the neighbors.

What Is Prayer?

Today the bedrock principle upon which any layperson's approach to prayer should be based is this: pray when you can, where you can, and how you can. ...