I think this raises some very interesting question...

2009-09-25T05:53:22.836-03:00

I think this raises some very interesting questions not only about prayer in public life (on which I find your comments most illuminating), but about religion as a whole in public life. I don't know about the US, but it's an increasingly contested area in the UK.

Like you, Phillipe, I'm very much involved in inter-faith work and much of this is to do with religion in the public realm (representing the the Baha'i Faith and the relgion & belief equality strand as a whole on various government advisory bodies, for example).

There are issues of conscience. There are cultural and legal pressures not to be offensive to others, but one cannot eviscerate ones faith merely to avoid being offensive.

I'm reading an excellent collection of essays about these kinds of issues at the moment. "Faith in the Public Realm: Controversies, Policies and Practices"considers the British situation in depth and is quite thought-provoking. I may well review it on Barnabas Quotidianus when I have finished the book.

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I think this raises some very interesting question...