At The National Prayer Service, A Plea To Avoid 'Simplistic Calls For Unity'
Speakers at the service see a "new America" and embrace a range of progressive causes. "The only way to establish domestic tranquility is to establish justice," the Rev. William Barber II says.
Gone were the conservative evangelical leaders who had been invited in the past. No Catholic bishops or priests took part.
This year's National Prayer Service, a longstanding inauguration tradition to welcome an incoming presidential administration, instead featured two transgender faith leaders, the president of the Navajo Nation, and a host of speakers with urgent calls for national
