Prayer

New Catholic sex prayer -- but where's the sex? New Catholic sex prayer -- but where's the sex?

The Church's booklet for married spouses replaces excitement and intimacy with sack cloth and ashes
By Frances Kissling Sep 22, 2009

  • Divining the brain

    Andrew Newberg discusses what happens in our brains during prayer, meditation and mystical visions. Yet understanding the brain, argues the neuroscientist, does not close the book on the nature of religious experience.
    By Steve Paulson September 20, 2006

  • God at the gas pump

    Tired of high gas prices? Try a little divine intervention.
    By Andrew Leonard April 28, 2006

  • Flashes of hope in the darkest hour

    My son, Sam, never knew his dad. One day he decided he wanted to meet him. Here's what happened.
    By Anne Lamott December 20, 2002

  • Stop the holy showboating

    Listen up, jocks: God doesn't care if you score a touchdown. So do your praying in private, not in the end zone.
    By Dan McGraw September 28, 2002

  • Toward peace

    There's prayer, and then there's the wife and money trouble and Billy Graham.
    By Alan Rifkin September 27, 2001

  • Letters to the Editor

    Is it better to be food-obsessed than fat and happy? Plus: Trolling for errors in "Dutch"; hip-hop merits not less scrutiny, but greater intellectual rigor.
    Letters to the Editor November 10, 1999

  • Faith healing

    Can prayer do anything more than make you feel better?
    By Jon Bowen November 3, 1999

  • Holy hassle

    Getting to the Vatican for New Year's Mass, plus advice for first-time cruisers and Auckland sightseers.
    By Donald D. Groff October 28, 1999

  • 21st Challenge No. 21

    Prayers for the digital age
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau April 24, 1999

  • Momcat

    By Anne Lamott January 22, 1999

  • Turtle time

    By Anne Lamott October 15, 1998

  • In the Mouth of the Cave

    By Anne Lamott June 19, 1997
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