David French’s Five Best Ways to Pray For America
Update: 2025-06-19
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Praying for Change: A Path to National Reconciliation
Feeling stuck on how to pray for America? You’re not alone—but there is a path forward. In this timely episode, Good Faith “founding friend” and New York Times columnist David French lays out five virtue-based ways to pray for our nation with clarity, courage, and compassion. Drawing upon Scripture with a healthy dose of personal reflection, David extols the importance of praying for America as a daily act to seek God’s best for our country and each other—restoring unity and healing what’s broken.
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Scriptures mentioned in this episode:
- 5:16 %E2%80%9318/"> 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (ESV)
- The Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:5-13 (ESV)
- 5:11 %E2%80%9321/"> "The Ministry of Reconciliation" in 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 (ESV)
- 26:36 %E2%80%9346/"> Jesus Prays in the Garden of Gethsemane in Matthew 26:36-46 (ESV)
- Micah 6:8
- Ephesians 4:3
- Isaiah 42:3
- Psalm 34:18
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Ongoing Los Angeles Protests
- Australian journalist shot by rubber bullet during L.A. protests (video)
- Waymo taxis Ablaze in Los Angeles
- Georgetown scholar recalls ‘mockery of due process’ in immigration jail
- The Westminster Confession's Standards for the 9th Commandment
- South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Les Miserables: The Bishop and the Redemption of Jean Valjean
- What Is Restorative Justice?
- More about the work of Brennan Manning
- Tim Keller’s Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
- Dennis F. Kinlaw’s Prayer: Bearing the World as Jesus Does
- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/M-Bounds-Pr
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