A prayer for hard times

Standing in City Hall’s marble lobby, unemployed autoworker Rick Litwin and his wife, Maria, waited beneath the maroon vinyl banner of the public prayer station.

Rick, Bible in hand, greeted every passerby with the same question: “Do you need a prayer today?”

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