Who prays for the President?

Who prays for the President?

Our President-elect has received a lot of grief from two sides on his choices of clergypeople to participate in inauguration ceremonies. His choice of Rev. Rick Warren raised a lot of concerns. Some people seemed to think that he was going back on what he had run on.

Cathleen Falsani, religious columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, writing for sojo.net, puts things in good perspective, noting that the inventory of clergy participating included the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, the first female president of the Disciples of Christ, the female president of the Islamic Society of North America, three rabbis, Bono, and a Hawaiian shirt-wearing mega-church pastor.

This is the first post-Billy Graham inauguration. I don’t know how much the talking heads on television and radio will make of that, but it does seem worthy of note. And the choices made this year seem to provide good criteria, not only for future inaugurals but also for other civic events, large and small.

And, of course, who prays for the President? Well, it should be all of us.