Author and Catholic biblical scholar Stephen Binz, a former resident of Little Rock, has written much about this spiritual practice. "Lectio divina teaches us to listen for the voice of God in ...

I remember the first time I tried to pray for a solid hour. I was about 19 and in my college dorm room. Before that day, I was praying anywhere from 5-10 minutes in one sitting. Outside of that, I ...

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 ...

Until last week, “imprecatory prayer” was not in many people’s vocabularies. But then the Rev. Wiley Drake, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Buena Park, Calif., urged supporters to use Psalm 109 ...

Interpreting scripture among adults who pray monthly by religious group % of adults who pray monthly who say the holy scripture is… ...

Binz said this type of reading the Scriptures dates back to ancient times, and the term itself is believed to have originated in the third century. St. Benedict incorporated it as the core of his Rule ...