All but 15 of 1,200 Texas school districts rejected a law that encourages students and staff to pray and read the Bible during the day.

The Wichita Falls ISD School Board voted unanimously to decline implementing a state law that would require schools to set aside time for prayer or scripture reading, citing existing faith ...

Author and Catholic biblical scholar Stephen Binz, a former resident of Little Rock, has written much about this spiritual practice. "Lectio divina teaches us to listen for the voice of God in ...

I remember the first time I tried to pray for a solid hour. I was about 19 and in my college dorm room. Before that day, I was praying anywhere from 5-10 minutes in one sitting. Outside of that, I ...

Fabulous books have been written about prayer, and myriads of prayers are available in print. Here, prayer language is primarily Scripture itself. The poetry, songs, dialogue, and prose of the Bible ...

Two Baptist chaplains said they were forced out of a Veterans Affairs chaplain training program after they refused orders to stop quoting the Bible and to stop praying in the name of Jesus. When the ...

The “ Women of the Bible: Nameless Women” Bible study at St. Paul’s explores how the roles of women shape scripture. In the Bible, there are over 600 nameless women, and many of them played notable ...

Interpreting scripture among adults who pray monthly by religious group % of adults who pray monthly who say the holy scripture is… ...

Binz said this type of reading the Scriptures dates back to ancient times, and the term itself is believed to have originated in the third century. St. Benedict incorporated it as the core of his Rule ...