Prayer for Our Enemies
I am reading, and very much enjoying, a non-fiction book called American Gospel, written by Jon Meacham. It is, as its title implies, a book about America’s attempts to keep Church and State separate. I thought I would share some points from the book in a few posts. Here, for example, is a prayer a minister recited at the 1944 church service to commemorate FDR’s first inauguration. Apparently FDR liked the prayer a great deal and was very happy to…