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Let Us Pray: Almighty God, Our Father, everything we see and everything we can’t see exists because of You alone. It all comes from You, it all belongs to You, it all exists for Your glory. History is your story. The Scripture tells us, ‘Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is…

On Monday, I visited with Gene Robinson at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, the day after his historic prayer opening the inaugural ceremonies. We’ll have video later but I wanted to quickly get up some of the highlights of what I found a fascinating interview (conducted with our partners at The Wall Street Journal): What a…

Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal church, gave the opening prayer at the beginning of the inaugural festivities at the Lincoln Memorial. Below is the transcript and a YouTube video In the next day I’ll also be posting an interesting interview I had with Robinson Monday, in which he discussed what…

As I’ve been foraging through the history of inaugural prayers, one question has remained a mystery: why, in 1937, did Franklin Roosevelt start the tradition? Professor Mark Silk has come up with an interesting and plausible theory. Prior to 1937, the vice presidents were sworn in by their predecessor in the Senate chamber. A prayer…
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