Jeanette Rusk Sefcik: Even without religion, we need something like prayer

Nobody is going to church during this pandemic. But everybody is praying.This brings me to the dilemma that I’d like to explore here. In our increasingly secular society, we need an alternative to religious words like “prayer” and “revelation.” Many of us have left religion, but we still have a need to connect to something greater than our conscious selves, even if we don’t know what that is. And we certainly are able to access “inspiration,” which