"Truly prayer is at odds with one’s natural impulses. And indeed, to the watching world, prayer is perhaps the most ridiculed of Christian doctrines. Though curiously in the unbeliever’s distress, prayer to the unknown gods formulate without hesitation. For unsurprisingly, desperation remains a great schoolmaster on prayer. And we’ve all heard, of course, the politician with no regard for Christ on Sunday resort on Monday to the old cliché “our thoughts and prayers are with them”. So of interest here is the Christian and prayer, and the test of whether we are merely practical atheists when it comes to intercession."

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