God works in mysterious ways or, as Father Donald Haggerty puts it, God “speaks in the coincidences found in events, at times dramatically, at other times more quietly.” When the Register asked me to ...

We’re hard-wired to pray, but a little confused about it, too. What qualifies as a proper prayer, exactly? Why do we pray? To whom are we praying? Are our prayers answered? What gave us the idea to do ...

In Late October, as the “perfect storm” that was Hurricane Sandy came barreling toward the northeast coast, my wife and I were in Atlanta watching the Weather Channel with mounting concern. Our ...

Prayer is the natural inclination of human beings throughout history. Our proclivity to prayer is almost as natural, and as beneficial, as breathing. It is the life-breath of the believer and the ...

Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to the ground in the direction of the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as part of the Islamic prayer ...