How should one pray? Not even the Psalmists or the disciples knew the answer. The Psalms are filled with pleas for God to place words on the tongues of believers; the disciples were even so bold as to ...

Thanks for your patience with my sporadic contributions the last few Fridays as I recovered from an unplanned and unanticipated medical procedure. I had thought today’s article would be in the July 21 ...

Augustine’s Confessions is the story of a soul. It is the account of a soul that once had a rigid, fairly intelligible story for itself. For some thirty years, Augustine told the same story of his ...

The last two Fridays, we’ve looked at the heart of prayer. We’ve been reminded that, at its most essential level, prayer is not just reading a list of requests to God, but rather, responding to God’s ...

A Prayer Journal presents the surviving pages of a Sterling notebook filled during O’C onnor’s time at the University of Iowa. Her entries read like letters, as W.A. Sessions, an O’C onnor expert who ...

Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor is seen in a Sept. 22, 1959, photo, sitting on the steps of her home in Milledgeville, Ga. Elizabeth Coffman, an associate professor of film and digital media at ...

A Prayer Journal is the slimmest volume imaginable. It runs 38 pages, with a like amount added showing the facsimile pages of Flannery O'Connor's original journal. It is so light that it is could blow ...