How Do You Start a Prayer Life? How Do You Keep It Going? A new series from the Orthodox Christian Network examines some challenging questions

· Frederica Mathewes-Green

I was honored to be invited to fly down and be interviewed by Fr. Chris Metropoulos for a new OCN series, “Direct and Unapologetic.” They asked me to talk about how to get a prayer life started, and how to keep it going. Here’s the link:

As usual with any video, I can’t bear to watch it; whatever bit I do watch, I think I sound stupid; and I can’t stop thinking how fat I look! All thoughts that I bet no viewer ever has, not even my husband.

I hope what I had to say will be helpful to people trying to organize a regular prayer life, and hope that the people at OCN edited out all the stupid parts.

About Frederica Mathewes-Green

Frederica Mathewes-Green is a wide-ranging author who has published 11 books and 800 essays, in such diverse publications as the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Smithsonian, and the Wall Street Journal. She has been a regular commentator for National Public Radio (NPR), a columnist for the Religion News Service, Beliefnet.com, and Christianity Today, and a podcaster for Ancient Faith Radio. (She was also a consultant for Veggie Tales.) She has published 11 books, and has appeared as a speaker over 600 times, at places like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Wellesley, Cornell, Calvin, Baylor, and Westmont, and received a Doctor of Letters (honorary) from King University. She has been interviewed over 700 times, on venues like PrimeTime Live, the 700 Club, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, and the New York Times. She lives with her husband, the Rev. Gregory Mathewes-Green, in Johnson City, TN. Their three children are grown and married, and they have fifteen grandchildren.

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