“Interdependence” by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was originally written for the 50th Anniversary of the World’s Young Women’s Christian Association, 19 November 1944. The prayer was included by Rabbi Morrison David Bial in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 55. It’s likely that Rabbi Bial first read the prayer in an anthology of prayer by Stephen Hole Fritchman, Prayers of the Free Spirit (1945), p. 38. . . .
A prayer for the continuance of “the American way of life” offered during the Cold War (1947-1953) in northern New Jersey. . . .
A prayer offered at the opening of a department store during the post-WWII economic expansion in the United States. . . .
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