I don't really care who, if anyone, prays at the inauguration

It turns out Louie Giglio won’t be giving the benediction at Obama’s second inauguration. Who will?

Jack Jenkins is right: Minerva Carcaño, Otis Moss, Gary Hall and Brian McLaren are all fine options. Joanna Brooks is right, too: so are Pratima Dharm, Sharon Braus, Sanaa Nadim, Anapesi Kali and Valarie Kaur. Ed Kilgore suggests his own pastor, who’s related to Ron and Rand Paul. Sounds okay, too.

Actually, I also agree with Fred Clark: there really shouldn’t be an official prayer on the program at all. Like the National Prayer Breakfast, these carefully orchestrated inaugural invocations and benedictions both muddle the government’s official nonsectarianism and—more importantly, at least to me—cheapen the idea of prayer.