In Editor Marv Adams column “A prayer ‘to no one,'” he quotes Rev. Gerry Stoltzfoos in justifying evoking the name of Jesus at the end of payer before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as follows: “‘I just wanted to pray to Jesus,’ he said. ‘A prayer addressed to no one is like a letter addressed to no one.'”
WATCHDOG: How are members of the House able to join in the prayer if they don’t know until the end to whom it is addressed? Normal practice in public and also in interdenominational settings is to address God, Lord or perhaps the Almighty.
