I’ve had a complicated relationship with prayer, increasingly resisting conceptions of prayer that put control in our hands. Recently I preached on a lectionary passage about prayer (Luke 11:1-13) that could be construed this way. It includes an interesting parable about a man who needs bread, so he pounds on the door of his friend until his friend fina…
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