A Redemptive Friendship: Sen. Lugar and a King’s Visit to Congress

Just before the King of the United Kingdom addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress, I sat in the chapel at Pembroke College, Oxford, as the choir sang the Compline service. The liturgy celebrates the end of the day and prays for peace through the night as we are called into the new work of the following day. Pembroke was the home college of Senator Richard G. Lugar — Rhodes Scholar, six-term U.S. senator from Indiana, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom — and as I sat there, I found myself thinking about his example and what such a prayer service during his time there seeded in him.

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