While controversy about a prayer may feel “new” for some in Baylor’s leadership, it isn’t new at all for people of faith. This theme is all over both the Old and New Testaments. We learn in Deuteronomy, Ezekiel, Isaiah and Psalms how God cares about the marginalized, but when the prophets preach it, they are stoned. It gets even more serious in the New Testament. The Gospel of Luke reports that Jesus went back to the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth and opened the scripture. The word Jesus read that day was from the prophet Isaiah, claiming good news for the poor and marginalized. People were distraught that a person from their hometown was speaking like this. The people took him to a hill and attempted to throw him off the edge.