Sometimes, a situation is so surreal, so radically different from anything one has ever experienced before — that old words don’t feel sufficient, that new prayers must be imagined and transcribed in ...

I want to defend written prayers. When I teach people how to pray, they have this idea that prayers “straight from the heart” are the only authentic prayers, and that is, quite simply, bologna.

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