When Aretha Franklin crooned the words "I'll say a little prayer for you" in the hit 1960s song she probably didn't imagine that the soulful pledge would become the stuff of serious science.

The Memorare is a sixteenth-century version of a fifteenth-century prayer that began "Ad sanctitatis tuae pedes, dulcissima Virgo Maria." Claude Bernard (1588-1641) popularized the idea that the ...

Imagine the Supreme Court rejecting a new law or policy that would coerce students into prayer at school. That would inevitably reinforce the idea that prayer has been taken out of schools and ...

However, the biggest tell that Johnson was knowingly lying was how he introduced the prayer, saying it's ... nationalism — was instilling the idea that facts do not matter, and "history ...

Cardinal Dolan’s inauguration invocation shows that fervent prayer is the linchpin in the ongoing American experiment.