Matthew McConaughey has always carried himself like a man who knows the punchline before anyone else. “When that disease of cynicism comes around—and it comes for all of us—you stave it off,” he said. McConaughey doesn’t hide that. So why pretend otherwise?”That willingness to laugh at himself might be what gives Poems and Prayers its unexpected charm. We need it more than ever.”That’s the tension of Poems and Prayers: belief without certainty, and prayer as both discipline and experiment.