When you’ve been through five years of pain, the idea that Jesus just went around curing people like it was nothing in Biblical times brings up a lot of feelings. Gee, if Jesus could literally raise ...

In this insightful manual, spiritual director Lee (Answering God’s Call) shares guidance for communing with God during adversity. Drawing on Ignatian spirituality, which emphasizes bringing one’s true ...

As Newtown continues to look for the answers for what led to the violence that claimed 28 members of their community, they attended their local churches and sent prayers to their families. At the same ...

Every preacher would agree that prayer is foundational for preaching. We give much lip service to the power and place of prayer in the sermon preparation process. Seminary taught us this concept and ...

In this fourth and final reflection on prayer, I would like to return to the idea of prayer as a collective act unfolding in time. Prayer is more than an affective impulse between Jesus and myself. It ...

Editor’s Note: Dennis Hamm, S.J., who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 87, was one of America’s most popular Word columnists. A few years after I began at America in 1994, Dennis began his tenure writing ...