We have four kids now. That idea is still settling in for us. They are 6, 4, 2, and old enough only to be prayed with in mom and dad’s arms. We started praying with them very early, just basic prayers ...
A review of A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor. In 1945, at age nineteen, Flannery O’Connor left her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, to study journalism on scholarship at the University of Iowa.
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 ...
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 ...
Tess Taylor reviews Flannery O'Connor's A Prayer Journal written when the late author was in her early 20s. Every so often, as scholars sort through old papers, they find a rare and wonderful gem, ...
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 ...
When I was diagnosed with a rare muscle disease a dozen years ago, it hit me that I didn’t believe in God. Maybe “hit me” is too strong a way to put it. I just gradually realized that I wasn’t praying ...