What Is This Prayer Stuff Anyway?: An Exploration of How Prayer Is More Than Words

What Is This Prayer Stuff Anyway? is a joyful proclamation that there are many different ways for Christians to pray.

This book describes over sixty different forms of prayer, providing gentle guidance for each one. Some are active and energetic, others are quiet and contemplative; some involve groups of people, while others are more individual in nature; some open us to receptivity, others release our creativity. Regardless of where the reader starts or ends, however, the authors assert that it is all prayer; it is all response to the abundant love that God gives us in every moment.

What Is This Prayer Stuff Anyway? will be a valuable and valued resource for clergy and lay people, prayer groups and individuals, those who have prayed all their lives, those who are just starting out, and those who have found their prayers have become a bit stale; anyone, in fact, who wishes to engage, or reengage, the practice of prayer.

Laura Marie Piotrowicz is a Canadian Anglican priest of over twenty years. She is an author, activist, and advocate, with passion for prayer, gender justice, and ecological theology. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Rick Pryce has served as a Lutheran pastor in Canada for over thirty-five years. He is a published theologian, composer, devotional author, poet, and historian. He lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.

Rick Pryce has served as a Lutheran pastor in Canada for over thirty-five years. He is an author, composer, and theologian with a passion for racial justice, reconciliation work between Indigenous people and settler descendants, and articulating the gospel's radical call to engage with "the Other." His most recent publication is What Is This Prayer Stuff Anyway? with Laura Marie Piotrowicz (Wipf and Stock, 2026). He lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.