Studying the efficacy of prayer is a sensitive topic: Depending on where you come from, you can either consider it offensive even to try to apply a scientific method to a spiritual process, or you can ...

Some questions just will not die. “Why is there something instead of nothing?” is a perennial. Perhaps the second-most persistent question is this: “Is yawning contagious?” or “Why is yawning ...

Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some ...

If you read this column regularly, you may recall my two previous articles about prayer. The first was about establishing the ...

Can prayer boost the odds of recovery from physical ailments? Studies on the question have yielded no clear-cut answers, although one well-known, 2006 study of people who prayed for others from long ...

A LOT of studies on intercessory prayer have been published in recent years. This research has returned mixed results. Some studies conclude that prayer improves health, while others show no effect—or ...

International House of Prayer-Macon makes prayer and intercession its focus. “We’re primarily a prayer ministry,” said Keith Ratzken, leader of IHOP-Macon who serves the ministry bi-vocationally while ...

Prayer works for people .its called faith. - Ronnie, a reader An unscientific reasoner will be guided by a confused recollection of crude experience. –F. Galton (1872) The "Prayers and Thoughts" ...