An op-ed published in The Los Angeles Times took aim at a former high school football coach who lost his job over his refusal to stop prayers after games in the middle of the field. In the op-ed titled, “Jesus said to pray in a ‘closet,’ not on the 50-yard line,” Randall Balmer noted former high school football coach Joseph Kennedy walked to the middle of the field after every game and offered prayers. He added, “As an Episcopal priest, I’d be the last person to gainsay the importance of prayer. “He castigated the religious authorities of his day for their public prayers. He called them hypocrites, ‘standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets’ so they could be seen by others,” Balmer wrote.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 28, 2022 11:41 UTC