On the episode of “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe” airing right now, Mike Rowe and his crew are assisting a crew washing windows on a skyscraper.

The thing that amazed me is that they showed, in its entirety, the brief but sincere prayer that the window-washing crew prayed together before heading out over the side of the building. (Mike even added an “Amen” at the end.)

I understand why, in many secular situations, it would be easy to leave something like that on the editing room floor. After all, you’re not making a religious program, and there’s a chance that part of your viewing audience would be offended. There are certain types of non-Christian prayers that, if shown in this same context, would probably enrage some of my fellow Christians. Some people, both Christian and non-Christian, confuse any portrayal of religion at all with prosyletizing.

But the producers of “Dirty Jobs” (Rowe himself is the show’s creator and now one of its executive producers) decided to show the prayer, perhaps as a reminder to the viewers of the danger inherent in the job being portrayed. Good for them. I know nothing about Mike Rowe’s personal beliefs, and they’re none of my business. But I applaud him and his co-workers for including a relevant piece of information in this particular segment.