The People's Prayer Breakfast: an Alternative to the National Prayer Breakfast
How does a Christian live in a power-mad world? A world that, from the perspective of the Beatitudes, is upside down. A world where the poor are getting poorer, and the rich are getting richer? Where nature herself strains at her bonds: straining for release from the carbon blanket that presses against her too hotly, maddened by a thousand poison-filled wounds? Where thousands sit in furtive silence to create machines like the one on which I write, their hands gradually succumbing to a thousand repetitions, frozen and swollen?
What does it mean to be a Christian in a world that is crucifying the poor and the environment on the same cross?
Hear the prayers of the people. Hear, oh God, the prayers of the people.