Great Prayers: The Drake Prayer
DAVID ADAMS looks at a prayer attributed to 16th century English adventurer Sir Francis Drake…
Great Prayers: The Grace Prayer
DAVID ADAMS looks at the history of what’s become known as ‘The Grace Prayer’…
Great Prayers: “Now I lay me down to sleep”
DAVID ADAMS looks at the rather obscure origins of a famous bedtime prayer…
GREAT PRAYERS: ‘PHOS HILARON’ (‘HAIL GLADDENING LIGHT’)
Actually a hymn – in fact said to be the earliest known hymn recorded outside the Bible still in use, the Phos Hilaron is at its essence a powerful daily prayer of thanks to God. DAVID ADAMS takes a look…