A review of A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor. In 1945, at age nineteen, Flannery O’Connor left her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, to study journalism on scholarship at the University of Iowa.

How should one pray? Not even the Psalmists or the disciples knew the answer. The Psalms are filled with pleas for God to place words on the tongues of believers; the disciples were even so bold as to ...

Lately, my prayers have become a form of artistic expression: Carefully chosen words, praise reports like songs, and sometimes pissed-off pronouncements entwined with polite requests that I please not ...

Augustine’s Confessions is the story of a soul. It is the account of a soul that once had a rigid, fairly intelligible story for itself. For some thirty years, Augustine told the same story of his ...

When I was diagnosed with a rare muscle disease a dozen years ago, it hit me that I didn’t believe in God. Maybe “hit me” is too strong a way to put it. I just gradually realized that I wasn’t praying ...

In a letter to Louise Abbott in 1959, Flannery O’Connor sympathizes with what her correspondent must have been describing as a struggle of faith: “All I would like you to know is that I sympathize and ...

Spiritual journals and journaling—the practice of recording prayers, dreams, feelings, opinions, lists, and more—is a fast-growing field for religion publishers and gift companies. More than blank ...

FaithTime has unveiled its Prayer Collection, a thoughtfully crafted set of Christian prayers designed to help believers express their hearts to God in moments of need, gratitude, uncertainty, and ...