What Is Prayer?
Category: RELIGION
All religions, except some forms of Buddhism, recommend prayer. From the Latin precare, which means to beg, prayer is just that: begging, pleading, imploring a God, or some other otherworldly figure, such as a saint.
By J. H. McKenna, Ph.D., ContributorSenior Lecturer, History of Religious Ideas, University of CA ..., 2016-09-03