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UNDERSTANDING PRAYER: In the tomb of a saint, I thought about Twitter — thoughts on praying together

The words scattered in my mind. I’d read them dozens and dozens of times -- but almost always out of order. A year before I knelt in the tomb of the saint, I’d built a bot to repeat the prayer, twice a day every day, on Twitter.

For our Understanding Prayer series Tara Roberts writes about her experience using a prayer bot.