Comments on: The Prayer Not Heard

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:31:52 +0000

I am grateful to have the opportunity to actually hear and see that prayer. And I am grateful for the peaceful perspective on the mistake/oversight regarding the exclusion of this articulate and important prayer as well. I am indeed holding on to hope “and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” (Ro. 5:5)

By: anita

anita — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:17:40 +0000

Susan–> Okay. You had me chuckling on the Archbishop of Canterbury comment. Yep, I’m pretty sure he was running the sound board.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:36:08 +0000

I’m so glad that SOMEBODY filmed this because I was so upset when I it wasn’t played on NPR…or available through TV yesterday. Thanks for posting it…and the explanation for the oversight might be in earnest (yuck, yuck), but it was a big faux pas. I don’t look for the worst-case scenario. But that was just plain old-fashioned stupidity to have put him on five minutes before airtime. And then the speaker malfunction…..who invited the Archbishop of Canterbury to mix the sound at the event?!?!

By: anita

anita — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:42:06 +0000

Patricia –> Good point! I should have titled it “The Prayer Not Heard by Other People.”

Katie–> I’m not thrilled with the explanation (seems a rather silly mistake given the attention paid to Bishop Robinson’s participation in advance of the event) but neither does it avail us much to jump on every conspiracy explanation. And yes, an eloquent prayer indeed.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:52:09 +0000

Hey Anita,

Thank you for posting this, I had heard much more … underhanded explanations for why he was not televised. Sometimes I think that people purposefully look for the worst possible explanation.

It was an eloquent prayer none the less.

–Katie

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:19:29 +0000

I was wondering … Isn’t a prayer always heard ? …

Or isn’t it ?
It must be. It has to. Even with the loudspeakers failing.

I thought this was a beautiful prayer.