In a world marked by injustice, suffering, and deep yearning for healing, prayer can seem like a quiet act. But in this bold and hopeful volume, Prof. Nico Koopman reclaims prayer as a dynamic force of transformation – both personal and public. Originally composed during the student uprisings on South African campuses, these 52 weekly prayers offer a year-long journey of faith that nurtures vision, shapes conscience, and stirs concrete action.

Drawing from Christian theological giants like Karl Barth and Stanley Hauerwas, Pray Daily, Act Boldly presents prayer not as passive ritual but as prophetic protest, moral formation, and spiritual resistance. It is through prayer, Koopman argues, that we envision a new society of justice, wholeness, and dignity – and receive strength to critique, resist, and transform the brokenness of the present.

Each prayer touches on urgent dimensions of human and planetary life: anxiety, injustice, racism, ecological degradation, inequality, and violence. At the same time, they invite us into deeper trust, community, compassion, gratitude, and courage. With each week, readers are called not just to pray but to become: to be shaped into people of character, virtue, and commitment.

This is a book for anyone who longs to live faithfully and courageously in our time – where clasped hands become the beginning of bold uprisings for the sake of a renewed world.