A gentle invitation to worship
As people enter through the narthex of St. Faith’s Anglican Church, Vancouver, B.C., on a Sunday evening, they are greeted by a small table...
Prayer: There’s an app for that
Smartphones dominate daily life, used for everything from ordering takeout to mapping directions to snapping photos to, occasionally, talking on the phone. So why...
‘Prayer is what God does in and through us’: Church of England bishop
On May 12, participants at a conference of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer (Canada) in Cochrane, Alta., were treated to a “powerful” presentation that “engaged everyone completely” for two and a half hours, says event organizer the Rev. Bonnie Luft, priest-in-charge at Saint Francis of Assisi Anglican Church in Airdrie, Alta.
What is prayer, and why do we pray?
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Some people, if asked, would probably
say that prayer means asking for something, and indeed the Oxford Canadian Dictionary defines prayer as...
Experiments in prayer
Famously, when asked by his disciples to “teach us to pray” in the gospels, Jesus responded with the Lord’s Prayer. For centuries, Christians have...
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