Scot McKnight waxes ever so eloquently on the hubbub over the invitation for Rick Warren to deliver the invocation for Barack Obama’s inauguration. His main points:
1. Inauguration Day is a day for all Americans to drop our differences to celebrate the Great American Experiment.
2. It is custom of to invite to the podium — for the invocation — a spiritual leader.
3. Inviting Warren to pray is a move that signals Obama may be serious about crossing boundary lines and working for a kinder, more unified America.
4. No matter your political leanings, we should love our enemies.
I’m far from a Obama apologist but it’s pretty amazing that a prayer can cause so much brouhaha. Reminds me of the stir Donald Miller caused from conservative evangelicals by praying at the Democratic National Convention back in August.
It may be easier for me to say since I consider myself a conservative evangelical, but let’s celebrate this act of prayer for the inauguration of our next president. And when and if the table is turned in my lifetime, I pray I can celebrate whomever is given the opportunity to pray for our country as well.
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