So many beautiful bedtime prayers are piling up in my inbox. Thank you, dear readers. Here is a sweet prayer from C that does not touch the problem of frightening kids with the phrase, “And if I die ...

The overwhelming response from readers to my request for bedtime prayers reinforces my belief that children are innately spiritual and remain so until adults take their natural faith away from them.

One of the unanticipated purposes of this column over the past several decades has been to point out with love and pride ways that our belief in God and God's love for us sneaks into our world in ...