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Article: Prayer lab.
- Article from:
- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- September 9, 2008
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Over the past 20 or 30 years many Protestant seminaries have instituted spiritual formation programs that introduce the spiritual disciplines, including prayer, to their students. Borrowing from the history of Catholic spiritual formation, these programs are considered an essential aspect of preparation for ministry, alongside learning the classical disciplines of biblical, theological and practical studies. As a consequence of these formation programs, it is not unusual to hear seminarians confess that it was in seminary that they learned how to pray for the first time--or learned how to pray all over again.
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