{"id":475,"date":"2010-12-28T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T13:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/12\/favorites-of-2010-prayer-is-stupid-unless.html"},"modified":"2010-12-28T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T13:29:41","slug":"favorites-of-2010-prayer-is-stupid-unless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/12\/favorites-of-2010-prayer-is-stupid-unless.html","title":{"rendered":"Favorites of 2010: Prayer is Stupid, Unless&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/prayinglife.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prayinglife.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/113\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/12\/prayinglife-thumb-200x200-20503.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Last April, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Praying-Life-Connecting-Distracting-World\/dp\/1600063004\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1293057065&amp;sr=1-1\">A Praying Life<\/a> by Paul Miller. In response (and as an encouragement for ANYONE who is even remotely interested in prayer to READ THIS BOOK), I wrote, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/04\/Prayer-Is-Stupid-Unless.html\">Prayer is Stupid, Unless&#8230;<\/a>&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last April, I read A Praying Life by Paul Miller. 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