Letting Go, Letting God

on the difference between prayer and magic

Odilon Redon Christ in Silence 1897

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I learned to pray in Pentecostal churches. That means I learned to expect my prayers to be answered. Jamie Smith has described Pentecostal spirituality as a radical openness to God, and I have found this openness to be an incredible gift, a form of what the Scriptures call faith. But under the destabilizing pressures …