Includes bibliographical references.

Praying in community. Watchers in the night -- prayer at Southern Star Abbey, Kopua / Brian Keogh. Considering Quakers and prayer / Sue Stover. Kindling the empty space -- how we pray in the Dominican Family Community / Mike Noonan. Praying in a Catholic primary school in Aotearoa New Zealand / Anna Zsigovits-Mace. Praying : a Dominican way / Helen Bergin. Cistercian prayer / John Kelly -- Praying in the world around us. Watch this space! A beginner's guide to praying the place / Elizabeth Julian. Seeking the Untamed Holy / Glynn Cardy. Praying with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other / Margaret Butler. Praying out of the earth / Neil Vaney. Praying through love, beauty, uncertainty and despair : contemplation as a way of life / Mary Betz. God saw that it was very good : praying in our gardens / Susan Smith -- Personal prayer and meditation. Being with / Alan Roberts. Say a prayer Mum -- some mothers and daughters talk about how they pray / Diana Atkinson. The leaning of the heart / Joy Cowley. Praying in emptiness / Peter Murnane. Christian meditation : building the foundation / Peter Murphy. Prayer of relationship : a personal journey / Trish McBride. Questing for God / Mary Horn -- Prayer in parish situations. Prayer at St. Paul's : symphonising many voices / Angelika and Philip Halstead. A spirituality of weekday praying with the scriptures / John Dunn. The pastoral power of prayer : a stitch in time / James B. Lyons. Prayer as part of pastoral care / Peter Atkins -- Praying from Scripture. God's steadfast love endures forever / Alice Sinnott. Praying the Paul way / Mark J. Keown. Abide in me as I abide in you (Jn 15:4) / Stuart Sellar. The prayer of the disciple / Vincent Hunt. The Gethsemane Prayer : a pattern for believers / Mark J. Keown -- Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and multi-faith prayer. Pujā -- my path to salvation / Pushpa Wood. The gift of prayer / Fiona Lovatt Davis. What has Mecca to do with Ponsonby? / Zain Ali. Human will and God's will / Verpal Singh. Coming together to pray -- with believers of other faiths / Catherine Jones -- Conclusing reflections. Divine intimacy and human journeying / Neil Darragh.

Today prayer and meditation face the test of relevance in a public arena where even the existence of God struggle for airtime. The chapters of this book demonstrate how prayer can be varied and adventurous. They encourage us to search for a satisfying, adult prayer style of our own. Knowing how others pray inspires us to explore new ways of prayer and enriches our own customary practice.