Prayer Thoughts

My usual 'Ironing' accompaniment with my mate Melvin

In Our Time discussion about Prayer  - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005465m

With Professor Russell Stannard, physicist, religious writer and author of The God Experiment; 
Andrew Samuels, Jungian analyst and Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex.

In Our Time discussion about Dietrich Bonhoeffer -  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bkpjns

With Stephen Plant, Dean and Runcie Fellow at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge

Eleanor McLaughlin,  Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at the University of Winchester and Lecturer in Ethics at Regent’s Park College at the University of Oxford

And Tom Greggs, Marischal Chair of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen

In Our Time discussion about St Paul - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kjk8z

Helen Bond is Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at the University of Edinburgh; 
John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews; 
John Barclay is the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University.

And my thoughts on Prayer inspired by this programme.

"Thinking of you", a modern secular way of saying "Praying for you". But is it enough?  We know that connecting with 'the other', a Supreme Being, is universal across all time and space.  Is there anything out there?  I agree with Samuels (and perhaps Stannard too) that researching the effects of prayer is likely to back fire.  The premises of the experiment is floored.  What if the experiment was repeated in Japan?  Is God's love dependent on The attention of a fan base?  I was interested by Carl Jungs book, described by Samuels, analysing the God of Job as a narcissist.  

I like the idea of the word 'pray' being banned.