Praying for unity at National Cathedral inaugural service
President Obama started his second term with a traditional worship service and a challenge to help heal the nation’s divides.
“We find ourselves desperately longing to find common ground, to find a common vision, to be one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for everyone,” said Adam Hamilton, the centrist United Methodist pastor from the Kansas City suburbs who preached January 22 at the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral.
“In this city and in this room are the people who can help,” said Hamilton, the founding pastor of a Leawood, Kansas, congregation that began in a funeral home but has grown to 16,000 members, the largest in the denomination.
