PRAYER AS PORTAL TO POSSIBILITY:
An Invitation to Radical Engagement
Facilitated by: Micah Bucey
Available by: Watch Online Recordings
Price: General Public: $ 100.00 | One Spirit Graduates and Students: $ 90.00
Elective Credit: 1
The concept of “prayer” has been weaponized by fundamentalists and weakened by politicians, but what is it really, what is it for, and how can it serve our collective liberation?
Join Micah Bucey, the author of The Book of Tiny Prayer, to explore 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 an intentional invitation to radical 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?
FACULTY:
Micah Bucey
Micah Bucey is a progressive faith leader, a flaming fairy, and an enthusiastic fan who writes, speaks, and extravagantly celebrates the intersections between expansive spirituality, radical social justice, and unfettered creativity. He currently serves as Minister at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village and as a regular contributor to SpiritualityandPractice.com, and is the author of The Book of Tiny Prayer, published by Fordham University Press. While he is ordained in the Christian tradition, Micah’s imagination is most activated by an interspiritual approach that celebrates the diverse ways that divinity manifests in everything and everyone. He prefers questions over answers, weird over normal, authentic over perfect, and funny over formal, and cares deeply about healing souls and spirits that have been hurt by those who use religion as an excuse to shame, damage, and dismiss.