My husband and I have been praying for our daughter's chronic illness for three years and she's not getting better and we're starting to disagree about whether we should keep believing prayer works or if we're just avoiding harder medical decisions. He says the research shows prayer helps healing but I've been reading studies that say it doesn't and now we can't even pray together anymore without this tension between us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who once shared faith in prayer's power are now divided by conflicting interpretations of evidence while navigating ongoing suffering.
“Where Are You with Prayer — does it work? what the evidence shows?”
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