Prayer in the Contemporary World

Douglas Steere writes of the present work, "I have always believed that interior prayer is to religion what original research is to science. These thirty personal messages that move across the web of prayer – interweaving the unlimited liability that marks genuine commitment, the dimensions of a vital ecumenism, and the interior gathering that is nurtured by corporate worship – were all written at the close of Vatican Council II, when I lay in my bed at Haverford recovering from blood poisoning. Originally designed to be used as a month's preparation for the World Day of Prayer, they almost wrote themselves, and still seem undated enough to justify republication. I am grateful to Pendle Hill for returning them to circulation."