Whatever its stated goal and original intent, it has been fully colonized by a full-throated Christian Nationalism, the result of the marriage between religious fundamentalists and the political right. In this sense, it is difficult to see how the National Day of Prayer has really anything to do with prayer anymore.

Our advocacy is grounded in our response to God’s grace, a call found at the intersection of our love for God and our love for neighbor, expressed in our obligation to the stranger and the dispossessed.