It's not just hype or hope or a spiritual cliche. It's a scientific fact: Prayer heals.

Recent medical and psychological studies claim that prayer can relieve stress, improve attitudes, and mend bodies. Prayer generates peace, power, and health - a triple preventative that guards against anxiety and disease. It's a simple act that heals.

According to Chester Tolson and Harold Koenig, prayer helps people function at their best when life serves them the worst. Even on good days, it enhances the mind-body-soul connection. In The Healing Power of Prayer, these authors explain the nature of prayer, what happens when we pray, the restorative benefits of prayer, how to organize prayer, and much more. Their facts and insights will encourage believers to increase, the fainthearted to revive, and skeptics to begin a life of prayer.

John Saul

Jack Du Brul

Dean Koontz

M. William Phelps

Rev. Chester L. Tolson, Ph.D., is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Born in Los Angeles, California, he has served as a senior pastor in San Anselmo, California, Lake Oswego, Oregon, and Rancho Santa Fe, California. He served as an executive for the Presbytery of Los Angeles, as a director for an appeal to raise mission funds for the Presbyterian General Assembly, and as the assistant to the president for Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. For over twelve years, Tolson served as the assistant to Dr. Robert H. Schuller of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries. He is now the executive director of Churches Uniting in Global Mission (C.U.G.M.), a network of churches across all denominations and traditional lines. He lives in Apple Valley, California.

Harold Koenig, M.D., is associate professor of psychiatry and associate professor of medicine at Duke University. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health at Duke and has written extensively on mental health, geriatrics, and religion. Koenig is board certified in geriatric psychiatry and geriatric medicine. He is the editor of International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, a medical research journal, and the founder and editor in chief of Research News & Opportunities in Science and Theology, a monthly international newspaper stimulating research, education, and dialogue in science and theology. Koenig is the author of The Healing Power of Faith and lives in Durham, North Carolina.