'Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.' Matthew 24:44

I was surprised when I was asked to pray for a meal at school by the head teacher. Actually I was honoured as religious freedom in UK schools is being severely challenged in this climate of opinion of principle. So I was surprised to come across this article online.

In Oklahoma and Alabama, effort is being taken to keep prayer a part of public school sporting events.

CBN News reports that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who advocated to keep a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol, is arguing that it is not constitutional for the school board that governs sporting activities to ban student prayer.

“You just can’t uniformly, arbitrarily say, ‘We are going to allow all speech except religious speech,’ and that is why it is overboard,” Pruitt stated.

Because the state allows open announcements in a public forum, Pruitt argued, it cannot constitutionally ban religious speech. 

A battle over prayer at public school sporting events is also being waged in Arkansas. 

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) warned the Ashdown, Arkansas school district and district superintendent Jason Sanders that allowing prayer at public school sporting events is unconstitutional, and specifically accused the school’s band director of praying at a school football game. 

Sanders disagrees. “We feel like that the freedom of our students to express themselves will hold up in a court of law,” he said. “We’re not going to stop any student who wants to exercise their freedom of religious expression such as a prayer.” Source

We really need to pray for our children who are still at school and under the influence of unbelievers. We also need to recognise that we are living in the closing days of earth’s history and we need to be alert to these signs of Christ’s 2^nd coming.

William Murphy sings 'Praying for you' as today's music. Listen to the lyrics. Click on the picture.