Let it be known: prayer is for progressive Christians.
At its heart, prayer is about connection with the God who made us and sustains us. In prayer, we remember we are not self-created beings but belong to a love larger than all our striving.
In the Psalms, we see people come to God with rage and doubt, confessions and thanksgivings. In the Gospels, Jesus teaches his friends to ask for daily bread and for God’s kingdom, meaning a world reshaped toward mercy and justice. In that light, prayer is just honest talk with the One who already knows us better than we know ourselves. We pray not to inform God, but to stay connected, to open ourselves to grace, and to let love reshape us from the inside out.
We do not imagine we can use prayer to control outcomes and we resist using prayer to avoid responsibility. When we pray for peace, we also examine our own violence. When we pray for the poor, we ask how our lives are tangled up with poverty.
So yes, prayer is for us, because staying connected to God keeps our justice rooted in love and our questions anchored in hope.
