As a seminary professor, I get questions like this all the time. And while my answers typically differ based on the context and the person asking, there’s one element I always incorporate into the ...

I received this from a parish priest, and post it with his permission: Ever since the Pennsylvania report we have been hearing bishop after bishop exhort the church to join with them in prayer and ...

If you believe in the power of prayer, would you please pray more? More and more, I’m convinced that the world would be a much better place if we took prayer more seriously. Prayer is not just a ...

At its core, celibacy is not about condemning sexuality but about directing human desires towards spiritual growth and self-control. Celibacy has always been a subject of spiritual discussion. Many ...

“Ask and ye shall receive.” We’ve all heard those words and their promise. “For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” We know God loves us as ...

How the Muslim month of Ramadan transformed my understanding of fasting, prayer, and Lent. The sun was setting on a sweltering late Friday afternoon in Amman, Jordan. Sun filtered through the dust in ...

How discipline and commitment prove essential in your leadership ministry. Andy Stanley said, “Leadership is stewardship, and you are accountable,” while speaking to a group of leaders at Catalyst ...

Have you ever prayed diligently, and persistently, and passionately, and God answered your prayers with a resounding “NO!” How do we respond when God does not answer our prayers in the way we thought ...

Welcome to your regular column. Last week, I tried to explain what fasting is all about. Fasting, I said, is a big-time business with high-level profiting. It is not just staying away from food, which ...

The Lenten season is a sacred invitation into deeper intimacy with God, a time of prayer, reflection, and deliberate fasting. But fasting is not simply a ritual of self-denial; it is a spiritual key ...

Few people know the desperate agony of unanswered prayer as much as Sittser, whose mother, wife and young daughter died when a drunk driver hit their car. (He and three other children survived.) "Why ...