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When serious illness makes you question if prayer has any real health benefits

I've been going to church my whole life but since my cancer diagnosis I can't stop wondering if all that praying actually helped my body or if I just wasted decades talking to nothing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A life-threatening diagnosis is forcing a confrontation between inherited faith practices and the stark reality of bodily vulnerability.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Faith and physical health — what research shows?”

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