[stars & stripes forever]

1. A Christian pastor would typically pray “in Jesus’s name” rather than saying to God, “in your name,” because the whole point of invoking a name is that it’s Jesus whose authority we cite in coming before God at all. I wonder if she was told to back away from the Jesus reference - or just decided she ought to - because mentioning Jesus wouldn’t be “diverse” enough for a Democrat convention. Or to put it another way, because the prevailing thinking among Democrats is antipathy toward Christianity.

2. Presuming to tell God, “You have given us wisdom by nominating Hillary Rodham Clinton” might have inspired a divine response: “I did?” You don’t stand there before God and cite some decision you made, and tell God it must have been His idea. That statement turned the prayer into a political speech, and considering how secular the audience is going to be at a Democrat convention, how can anyone really be surprised that the Bernie supporters responded as they did?

http://canadafreepress.com/article/dnc-night-1-dems-shout-down-opening-prayer-with-bernie-chant

[Dr. Sivana]

Presuming to tell God, “You have given us wisdom by nominating Hillary Rodham Clinton” might have inspired a divine response: “I did?” You don’t stand there before God and cite some decision you made, and tell God it must have been His idea. That statement turned the prayer into a political speech

Our Gospel reading last Sunday had to do with the publican (Luke 18:11, Douay-Rheims)

The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

I was remionded of that passage when I read the point about picking Clinton.