This week’s National Prayer Breakfast needs a shake up, should be opened up, says Gruending

The breakfast's message in past years has tended to fit within a religious tradition that focuses upon an individualistic view of faith. The event has done less to reflect the more communal thrust that has been central to both the social gospel and social

Hundreds of people will participate in the National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa on May 15. Last year, the featured speaker Serge LeClerc described his personal journey from the depths of despair to personal salvation. He said that he was born to a teenaged aboriginal and single-parent mother, drif...

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