The following is a collection of couples enrichment exercises taken from the “Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner” by Gary Schultheis, Bill O’Hanlon and Steffanie O’Hanlon (John Wiley and Sons).

Prayer is sacred intimacy. Spending hours and days with God while making decisions in marriage and building familial relations is blessed and admirable. A practice of praying has been meaningful to ...

At the core of our very being we long for connection. God designed us this way. After all, he desires a relationship with us, so it would only make sense that he would create us with a desire for ...

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Review of Religious Research, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Sep., 2002), pp. 58-67 (10 pages) Using the explanatory framework of the Relational Prayer Model, and samples of 77 young adults (aged 18-34) and 54 ...

The power of "The Passion of the Christ" is its effectiveness in helping people understand that their personal suffering, when united to Christ’s, can lead to self-knowledge and a greater intimacy ...

Are you sure you don’t want to ask me about Santa? The religious teachings about heaven and hell are based upon the beliefs that we are made up of material bodies and immaterial souls. This means that ...