Thought for the Week: The point of prayer

Alastair McIntosh reflects on prayer and protest

by Alastair McIntosh 17th February 2017

Last week was billed as the ‘last stand’ by the Great Sioux Nation in America. For the past year the tribe at Standing Rock have spearheaded a battle against companies that want to build a thousand-mile-plus pipeline through US military-owned land, extracting half-a-million barrels of oil a day from the shale rocks of North Dakota.