A Prayer for Friendship. I give thanks for my friends, for connection and laughter, for comfort and strength, for encouragement and unity, for forgiveness and grace, for celebration and joy.

This is an effort to get you to define who your friends really are. Who is it that you can absolutely depend on? I believe that you can determine this more in difficult circumstances than in ...

If your prayer, old or new, is leading you into love and closer friendship with God, don’t change a thing. Get to know Ricardo da Silva, associate editor What are you giving up for Lent?

The article “Friendship Is a Prayer,” by Greg Kandra, (3/17) was a fine one, except for the phrase “light up a smoke” in the last paragraph.