Pastor's Corner: The Lord's Prayer

It is the prayer we know so well that we can recite it without even thinking about it. If we are churchgoers, it is the prayer we say, at the very least, every Sunday, if not every day. It is probably one of the first prayers we ever learned as children; and it will be, even for those of us who walk into the long twilight of dementia, something we remember, long after we have forgotten the names of our own children.

As theologian John Dominic Crossan says, "The Lord's Prayer is both a revolutionary manifesto and a hymn of hope. It is revolutionary because it presumes and proclaims the radical...