There’s another good bit of that interview with the Los Angeles priest who works with kids in gangs that I overlooked yesterday. It’s another place where he offers a version of religion that is understandable even to secular types – understandable and worth doing.
… Read the restYou know how you were saying earlier that, like, when you were a child, your prayers were petitional? You know, God help me pass my math test. And now your prayers are more meditative. You have, you know, mantras that you say. Do you ever do petitional prayer anymore?
BOYLE: I don’t.
GROSS: Is there a place for that in your…
BOYLE: Well, I mean, it’s in the liturgy. You know, we’re people – you know,