The One Secret That Will Save Us

Hi Friends,

Last week was gut wrenching.

If the United States were a person, most of us would say she's got some serious issues.

Hopefully, the one-two body punch of Louisiana and Minnesota, and the knockout blow to the chin that was Dallas, has jarred the collective conscience and will motivate us to deal with the issues of race, bad policing, and how to love one another.

These have become an all too familiar sight.

I was really inspired by the interfaith prayer service in Dallas on Friday. It demonstrated how vital faith is in healing us in times of major crisis.

And you don't even have to believe in God to acknowledge that the power of prayer was evident and helping to put that broken city back together.

I wish we could do something like it on a national scale once a month, to make us feel like one great people, instead of the divided camps in which we find ourselves.

We need to roll out a cavalcade of inspiring preachers of every faith of the United States, to stand up and inspire us with prayers special to both their own faith and that are universally familiar.

People are many times surprised at how similar the world's religions are, especially the three major faiths that worship the same deity--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The liturgy of all three is, in many cases, indistinguishable.

We need to become more familiar and comfortable with one another. We can and need do this by learning more about each other, and discovering how much we all have in common.

Perhaps someday, as a supplement to our personal faiths, we'll also have a common one. Not a national church per se, but an entity that brings together our top religious leaders for a national Dallas-like prayer service.

It could be held at some enormous venue that each month moves to a different locale and is nationally telecast.

Every faith would be welcomed and represented, even Atheists and agnostics. .

We could call our new faith, The U.F.A.--the United Faiths of America. And we'll call our adherents... Americans.

Dallas changed our history once before with a violent and senseless act. But I don't think we learned a lot from that awful day in November, 1963.

Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if this latest horror in Dallas is the tipping point that ultimately fulfills the promise that is America?

Why don't we all take just a moment to pray for it?