I’m not sure when I first encountered the Serenity Prayer, or when it first occurred to me to ask who wrote it. For much of ...

The Book of Common Prayer, although mutable and equivocal, is the measuring-stick of Anglophone piety—and ever shall be, world without end.

The email included a photo of the page with my mother’s name. The careful script was unmistakably my mother’s hand. The address under the signature was familiar, too: 169 Hewes St., Brooklyn ...

After more than a week of debate among church leaders about whether God should be referred to by male pronouns — and about the numerous other issues that come up when writing a prayer book ...

I relished reading about prayer, talking about prayer, trying different kinds of prayer, and encouraging others in their lives of prayer. And most of all, I loved the sweet intimacy of prayer itself.

Heidi Smith, author of ‘The Uncommon Book of Prayer,’ argues that prayer is a way for even the nonreligious to find greater meaning and peace in their lives.

The Book of Psalms depicts and encourages a relationship with the Law characterized by meditation, memorization, delight, elevation of words in song, and collective performance.

While this is a brilliant book, it's not quite the one its subtitle leads the reader to expect. "The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age" seems to suggest a history of the making and ...

Another book with the same approach is Donald G. Bloesch’s The Struggle of Prayer. He criticizes what he calls “Christian mysticism.” He resists the teaching that prayer’s ultimate goal is ...

Since Archbishop Cranmer drew up the first Anglican Book of Common Prayer in 1548, revisions and proposals for revision have cropped up regularly. Still more thoroughgoing, Agnostic Shaw proposed ...

The prayer book present in Hans Holbein's portrait of Thomas Cromwell has been found in Trinity College Cambridge's library.