Walter Wink, a twentieth-century theologian at Auburn seminary, wrote: When we pray, we are not sending a letter to a celestial White House . . . rather, it is an act of co-creation, in which one little sector of the universe rises up and becomes translucent, incandescent, a vibratory center of power that radiates the power of the universe. History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being.

