Lord, have mercy. In certain Lenten services this invocation is repeated forty times while the body bends down and rises again. The gesture is simple and ancient. Knees bend, hands touch the earth, ...

These prayers rarely appear in books about spirituality. They are too brief, too ordinary, too woven into the fragile rhythms of daily life. Yet they carry a depth that formal words sometimes cannot ...

Betty Jo King's journey in ministry at Christ the King Church in Little Rock has transformed her faith and community service. Read her inspiring story.

These past decades have found us all struggling to find common ground in response to Jesus’ prayer that we be “one,” while witnessing greater degrees of distance between brothers and sisters in Christ ...