Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying Article 6 “Prayer does nothing. Absolutely nothing. There is no efficacy to prayer. AT best, prayer will make people less action oriented and more accepting of social inequities due to the false idea some higher power will look out for them. How about…

Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying—Week 4 The thing is religion sellers get you coming and going. If you pray for God to help you in a crisis and the crisis goes away…all praise to God. If you pray for help and the crisis doesn’t go away He has…

Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying—Week 3 What evidence is there for the efficacy of prayer? This is an old, well worn question but if you believe that God intervenes and saves people with a terminal disease or illness because of prayer, why does he not re-grow the limbs…

Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying—Week 2 I tried prayer. At one point in time, I tried prayer a lot, a whole lot, not one circumstance changed for me in life. Not one thing changed that did not require my active effort to make a change. One minister told…

Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying—Week 1 I volunteered to read to terminally ill children at a cancer unit once, and found that many of them were bound up at first in the hope that God would heal them. He never did. I wept copious tears each time one…