Commons & Co. A Church
Issue № 040 · April 12, 2026

On the Ethics of Prayer

On the Ethics of Prayer

Christians have prayed the Lord’s Prayer every day for two thousand years. We rarely think about what we are asking for.

“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” That is not a private petition. That is a request that the way things are be replaced by the way things ought to be.

Today, a meditation on what it means to pray those words honestly — and what work it commits us to.