The Lord’s Prayer: Recitation or Model?

A reader of a previous post, Brett, wrote:
the deeper question (just because i like seeing if you’ll blog instead of commenting back ) was the Lord’s Prayer given to us as a literal prayer to say regularly, or a model to follow when we pray? hmmm…
I wanted to take the time to write a [...]

Lord’s Prayer: Final Revision

as i was looking at the posts that have been viewed most recently, i realized that i never gave you, the reader, the final translation we (my family) decided on for the Lord’s Prayer. to refresh people’s memory, we felt that the prayer has become a little outdated (in english translations) and has lost [...]

Benefits of Recited Prayer

this is my first post since i got back to the US. for those who dont know, i was in Iraq. it is great to be home. it wonderful to be back with my wife and daughter.
something that i was thinking about recently was the topic of recited or traditional [...]

Benedictine Prayer

i wanted to share a quote from St Benedict, the founder of Benedictine Monasticism from God’s Politics:
Prayer should be brief and pure, unless it happen to be lengthened by an impulse or inspiration of divine grace.
- The Rule of Benedict

Do we need a new translation for the Lord’s Prayer?

because we doth no longer speaketh in terms and entreaties of the olde english, it was encumbent upon me to give thee an understandable version of ye Lord’s Prayer.
seriously, though. how many people, in day to day language, say “who art in heaven” or “hallowed be thy name”. even the more [...]