Prayables | The Best on Prayer & Family

Published: Sat, 01/03/15

Weekly Reading

Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage and something great will come of it.

Selected Features Saturday January 3, 2015

Praying for Common Ground

We know Christmas is way over, but this is worth a late hit share. Here's a wonderful read from Reza Asla.

Sitting around his Christmas table was a militant atheist, devout Muslim, born-again Christian. What to do about the prayer? Reza is a religious scholar who speaks many "spiritual languages." He figured out the perfect solution for his multiethnic, multicultural, multireligious family.

The prayer is what tripped us up. It was the first Christmas that my wife and I hosted in our home, and for a good 10 minutes, our two families stood around the dinner table arguing about how to thank God for the meal we were about to eat...READ MORE

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Make Resolutions You Can Keep

You know that dog-eared worn out piece of paper that you've kept all these years? Well this one is mine. It's a short piece from one of my favorite bloggers, Penelope Trunk. It has "duh" in the opening paragraph. That's always a good sign. It means get ready for a simple explanation. What is she explaining? How to make a New Year's resolution you can keep. ~Susan, Chief of Pray
READ IT.