Cutting to the Heart of Intercessory Prayer, With the New Yorker

The New Yorker just put up a slide show of readers’ favorite cartoons. Among them is a very fine one I’d never seen before — a comment about the weird self-indulgence, if not outright arrogance, of intercessory prayer.

Extra points for the fact that it’s almost just as funny with the alternative, generic caption “Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.”

The cartoon was drawn by the late J.B. Handelsman and you can buy prints of it here.