Praying together — even in an interfaith marriage?

I was checking my Google Reader this morning and found the following feed from About.com the marriage section headed up by Sheri and Bob Stritof:

Although finding a common way to pray together can be a challenge for interfaith marriage couples, the partners who do pray together see it as a way of building intimacy and being more closely bound together while adding greater meaning to their interfaith married lives.

“Although finding a common way to pray together can be a challenge…”  This might be a tad understated.  The Stritofs are trying to tackle something that is much bigger than four simple tips.  I would also love to know which couples they eluded to in their article because it sounds like they’ve actually talked to interfaith couples and researched how they pray together, but their article never deals to this fact any further.

I know and believe in the power of prayer but want to seriously caution any person reading this post to not marry outside of his or her faith.  The obstacles are too great and I can promise you, I’ve worked with couples of interfaith marriage before, trying to pray together will be your least concern.

The issues you will deal with are:

• where you get married
• how you raise your children
• where your kids go to school
• which faith your kids will participate in

Before you marry someone, you’d better make sure your are, at a minimum, compatible with your faith.