I'm not that good at either one. I know, this is an odd confession for a pastor to make. You don't like to hear your pastor saying, "I'm no good at praying." And don't get me wrong, it's not that I ...

CHRISTIAN WIMAN is a poet and editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. His most recent book of poems, Every Riven Thing, was published last fall by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Some existential glitch in ...

Most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. —Matthew Arnold, “The Study of Poetry” Prayers and poems share an uncanny family resemblance. In fact, they look ...

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about ...

Growing up in a religious Jewish home, I went to synagogue every Saturday for Sabbath services. I learned the traditional liturgy by rote. This wasn't a bad thing — it had a musical feel to it, ...

The British poet W. H. Auden once claimed that the very essence of prayer was “to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention—on a landscape, ...