Prayer and Action Archives | Contending Modernities

Prayer in Action: Supplication and Prayer in a Time of Crisis

A. Rashied Omar
May 10, 2017May 26, 2017

Too often we have a distortion of spatiality, a separation of my group and myself from the other. By entertaining strangers we recognize that we are all created in the image of God, in radical love.

Action as Prayer: Lessons from Oceti Sakowin

Series: Prayer and Action

Jonathan Brenneman
April 3, 2017

The prayer practices at Oceti Sakowin camp offered a holistic and positive relationship between prayer and action, a relationship not often found between prayer and action within Christianity.

Prayer, Peace, and the Imagination: A Catholic Sacramental Perspective

Series: Prayer and Action

Caesar Montevecchio
March 30, 2017March 30, 2017

Ritual and sacrament can serve as powerful vehicles for social transformation.

“To Be Absolutely Fair and Impartial”: Religious Instruction and Near East Relief’s Turn to Development

Series: Prayer and Action

Francis Bonenfant-Juwong
March 23, 2017January 24, 2024

The Near East Relief transition to a “non-sectarian” missionary organization in the 1920s was largely a pragmatic adjustment that enabled continued provision of spiritual support. To be non-sectarian, therefore, cannot be conflated with being secular.

Is Prayer Proselytism? Examining the Ethics of Religious Practices in Transnational Faith-Based Organizations

Series: Prayer and Action

Tanya Schwarz
March 20, 2017May 23, 2017

What constitutes proselytism (or “evangelism”) is contested and debated within and among faith-based organizations. For some, merely living as a “Christian” can constitute “witness” or “lifestyle evangelism.”

Prayer and Action Articles

Prayer in Action: Supplication and Prayer in a Time of Crisis

Action as Prayer: Lessons from Oceti Sakowin

Prayer, Peace, and the Imagination: A Catholic Sacramental Perspective

“To Be Absolutely Fair and Impartial”: Religious Instruction and Near East Relief’s Turn to Development

Is Prayer Proselytism? Examining the Ethics of Religious Practices in Transnational Faith-Based Organizations