First, these prayers make every meal begin with words of thanksgiving. That is intensely important to me. That every day I go around sated because of this food is an enormous blessing.

The custom of saying a prayer before meals can be traced to the origins of most of the world’s religions, when primitive people first asked blessings for a successful hunt or harvest, and then ...

In a politically divided America, saying grace before a meal is a shared experience, according to a poll by the Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation.

His children, 3 and 5, have mastered the Hebrew prayer before meals, which means, “Blessed are You, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who brought forth bread from the Earth.” ...