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Opinion Fox News aired a sponsored prayer! Here’s the one it should do next.

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March 21, 2024 at 6:45 a.m. EDT
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So, apparently, Fox News is airing sponsored prayers now! “Fox and Friends” started its Sunday morning program with a special Lenten prayer — brought to viewers by the prayer app Hallow!

As an Episcopalian, I suppose all my prayers have been sponsored by King Henry VIII for hundreds of years, but this is still wild to me. As long as we are letting sponsors lead us in prayer, I have some more suggestions for possible backers. (This feels like the kind of concept that your youth pastor thought would make a funny chain email in 2008, but … I’m not above it.)