Lauri Lebo

“Neither know we what to do.”

While President Obama, in his much-debated Oval Office Address last week, seemed to be calling Americans to personal prayer, activist Drew Landry’s vision is more collective, and possibly more practical. He believes the simple discipline of praying in unison will get people to pay more attention to the disaster being laid out at their doorsteps. Meanwhile, experts like Len Bahr say it is too late to restore the Gulf. The problem in dealing with the environmental disaster, he says, whether by prayer or science, is that nobody knows how bad it will get before it can get better.

Former evangelicals now strive to shed possessions.