Praying can allow people to vocalise suppressed emotions or fears, and several studies indicate health benefits ...

I also engage in “petitionary prayer”—making specific requests of God, asking for his intervention to protect and, if necessary, bring healing to family and cherished friends, asking that ...

Bocking-Welch, Anna 2024. ‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991. Contemporary British History, Vol. 38, ...

The maternal grandfather of Professor Daniel Boyarin who frequently explored his neighborhood on mornings of Shabbat ...

Both historians and philosophers of religion have stated as an iron rule that mystical prayer is never petitionary. The naive prayer of the unsophisticated worshiper for help and deliverance appears ...