by Julia Rocchi | Spiritual Writing
Is prayer as simple as a sentence, as complicated as a curse? Pleas and genuflections, yes, but what about hugs and screams? What of its tone? Is prayer by nature positive, signaling a flicker of faith where perhaps none is thought to be? Then what about those times...
by Julia Rocchi | Spiritual Writing
My brother told me he was an atheist at the start of a car ride. He opened up the conversation as if he were coming clean. “I want to have faith,” he said. “I really do. But I have to be honest and say I don’t.” At first I was taken aback. I knew my brother wasn’t...