Prayer Room
About Prayer Room
Prayer Room is a virtual asynchronous prayer circle and a participatory art project. It looks to traditions of invocation in the black church and histories of non-western medicine, divinatory systems and ritual to create a collective continuing invocation for relief, fold, and carry.
Participants are invited to submit prayer requests through the form below. Requests can be about participants themselves or in honor of someone else—there are no restrictions or restraints on what kinds of prayer requests can be made. Prayer requests will appear publicly in the archive, anonymously.
In addition to this virtual “bowl” of requests that they can return to, up to six participants can also select to receive an “invocation” from a guest artist or poet. Each guest artist will be given a request to write a song/poem/make their own form of divination for. These invocations will be sent to the participants’ provided email and will not be shared publicly on the online page. Current guest artists are: Kaur Alia Ahmed, Aristilde Kirby, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Funto Omojola, Tosin Omojola, and ricky sallay zoker.
Prayer Archive
- For my mother
- For my father
- That I am able to be debt free in the next three years
- Prayer for my mother: may I have the ability to give her the gift of rest, relaxation, and freedom from worry
- For hearing my call called back and out again again plus blooming
- For the health of loved ones to overcome serious illness
- For peaceful resolution to conflict and an end to genocide
- For my grandmothers wisdom to be felt and seen :: for her health :: for peace internally and in the world
- In honor of my dog who passed away
- Prayers for the political prisoners in Iran
- That i become a teacher
- for my mother to find many plateaus of serenity and oneness previously undefined between sickness and well
- for my sister; may she know joy and peace