It’s a hair-raising prayer, to modern minds. Just rude. Like telling someone that you love and respect him and then telling him he smells bad and he has a 3-year-old’s dress sense and his jokes aren’t ...
Two years ago, I was reading an issue of Geez magazine on climate justice in my room at night when the heaviness of the climate crisis flooded me. In my evangelical days I was what some called a ...
I first learned to pray from evangeli­cals who converted me at a Christian camp. Prayer was a “quiet time,” reading the Bible and petitioning God, usually at the start of the day. I was encouraged to ...
All Christians agree that it is important and recognize it as central to Christian identity and practice. Some Christians are very good at it. Others struggle with it. Many Christians secretly do not ...