Flannery O’Connor was not a casual Catholic. “What people don’t realize is how much religion costs,” she writes in “The Habit of Being,” a collection of her letters. “They think faith is a big ...

Tess Taylor reviews Flannery O'Connor's A Prayer Journal written when the late author was in her early 20s. Every so often, as scholars sort through old papers, they find a rare and wonderful gem, ...

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 ...

Today we consider the second part of Jesus second instruction about prayer in Luke 18. The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector reminds us that God hears the prayers of some surprising ...