Prayer economies

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Harrold Stewart (letters 10 Oct) beseeches us to pray at each meal saying that God will use our prayers to save our farmers and their produce. Does He weigh up the crisis to be alleviated based on volume of prayer?

Perhaps chuches could set up premium phone services, priced competitive to Idol or Big Brother so punters could put their money where their prayer is; help with famine relief for africa, global warming, world peace, domestic drought relief, priests' retirement funds, or whatever the crisis de jour happens to be. A standard "issue specific" prayer that those out of practice can use comes thru the phone; money is collected to help alleviate the "crisis" specified; and technology can help introduce a prayerless generation to the practice.