So many beautiful bedtime prayers are piling up in my inbox. Thank you, dear readers. Here is a sweet prayer from C that does not touch the problem of frightening kids with the phrase, “And if I die ...

Like the parable of the long spoons, which I discussed recently, this is also a famous spiritual gem whose origins are obscure. Some say it is an Old English prayer, but I am not sure. The language is ...

Do you remember picking up an old “party-line” phone and intruding into someone else’s conversation, because the telephone line was already in use? (Granted, you must be of a certain age for such a ...