Reclaim the power of prayer for both personal and collective liberation in this sacred and playful evening with Micah Bucey.

About this event:

The concept of “prayer” has been weaponized by fundamentalists and weakened by politicians, but what is it really, what is it for, and what queer power might it hold for our collective liberation?

Join Micah Bucey, the author of The Book of Tiny Prayer, to start the new year off with an excavation of the four main imperatives of prayer: Attention, Intention, Time, and Quiet. In a world so laden with distraction, apathy, productivity, and noise, how might these simple ingredients demystify our complicated histories with prayer and lead us into an embodied exploration of Søren Kierkegaard’s words: “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

Whether you’re a regular pray-er, a curious pray-er, or a non-pray-er, we’ll co-create a sacred and playful space to ask questions, compose individual and collective blessings, and together reimagine what prayer can be, as we ask:

What if prayer were not a lazy cop-out from active engagement but the intentional invitation to active engagement?

What if we prayed not only out of occasional helplessness and hopelessness but also to regularly open ourselves up to becoming the help, the hope, the justice, the miracles we need?

What would happen if we met the overwhelming information cluttering our screens and our minds with prayerful intentionality every day?