Pray for Democracy / Act for Democracy

Examples

Here are some examples of prayers and types of prayers. I hope you will add your examples going forward.

Examples of Prayers: Here is one example of a Prayer for Democracy:

We pray for Democracy.
We pray for the protection of our Democratic system of government and our Democratic way of life.
We pray for the election of political representatives in 2026 and beyond who will support and defend Democracy.
We pray that everyone’s voting rights will be kept safe, that the election will be fair, and that the results will be accepted and will advance Democracy.
We pray for the use of our Democratic system to:

  • Defend a woman’s right to choose.
  • Protect Social Security and Medicare.
  • Support the health and well-being and prosperity of us all.
  • Address climate change.

We pray that our country will become a powerful force for peace, and justice in the world, particularly in relation to the Ukraine and Iran wars. We pray to be living manifestations of the Spirit of Democracy in our personal lives, with our families and friends, in our workplaces, and in our local and national communities. We pray for Democracy.

Here’s a shorter example:

We pray for Democracy and for election of members of Congress and state and local political leaders in this year’s election who are champions of Democracy.

Dance: Dance can be a prayer. For decades I collaborated with Anna Halprin and many others in presenting the Planetary Dance, in Anna’s phrase, a “dance with a purpose”.

In her book: Making Dances That Matter: Resources for Community Creativity, Anna has told the origin story of the Planetary Dance, a story that involved the creation of a morphic field by ritually enacting the capture of the Trailside Killer, in response to a series of killings on Mt. Tamalpais, with the killer being caught soon after the first dance.

Her book describes how to undertake Planetary Dances in communities around the world. Over the years many thousands of participants have joined in the Planetary Dance, dancing for many purposes – twice including ‘Dancing for Democracy’.

Singing. Lloyd Ferris, one of the first people I talked about the Pray for Democracy/Act for Democracy Campaign and one of the first people to join the Organizing Committee has suggested that we include a Sing for Democracy dimension to the Campaign. He is working on a collection of songs.

Visualization: Visualization can be a prayer. Seeing Champions of Democracy taking the oath of office as majorities in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives is a type of prayer that I am praying on a regular basis.

Invocation: Praying to God, invoking the name of Jesus Christ, to lend power to the Spirit of Democracy and to bring about victory for the forces of Democracy here in the U.S. can be the right way to pray, if such is our Faith.

Praying and dancing to invoke the power of Mother Earth and Father Sun in support of the Spirit of Democracy can be a way for those of us to Pray for Democracy who are from and/or who embrace Traditional and Indigenous Communities.

One of the distinctive benefits of this campaign is that it is entirely non-partisan so that it could become a powerful force for unity requiring only the belief and commitment to preserving and advancing our Democratic institutions.

Actions for Democracy. For me, initiating the Pray for Democracy/Act for Democracy is an example of an Action for Democracy. I’m also the Chair of the Planetary Dance Committee, which puts on the Planetary Dance each year in the Bay Area and helps promote Planetary Dances around the world.

I’ve also found participating in the No Kings marches/rallies particularly edifying.
In October 2025, my wife and I particularly enjoyed joining No Kings II in Murphys, California. Murphys has become a popular tourist destination with a historic Main Street now lined with dozens of wine-tasting rooms, art galleries, and restaurants, it is also Trump country. Over 60% of the voters in Calaveras County supported him in 2024.

We joined more than 350 people in the No Kings march up one side of Main Street and down the other, winding up in a remarkably good-humored rally in a little open space mid-Main Street. We joined young people, old folks, a guy in an inflatable frog suit, an inflated panda, and many in witch costumes due to the proximity of Halloween.

We were accompanied by a cacophony of honking from the cars and trucks and SUVs and motorcycles promenading down Main Street, with about 70% in vigorous support of us, and the rest just passing by with only a couple of people giving us a thumbs down. Since we were in the heart of Trump country, I found the level of support pretty amazing.

My wife commented to an old guy arrayed as Gandalf, with the grey robe, cone hat, staff, and long gray beard, that 350 was a good turnout for a town Murphys size. He replied, “Good turnout? It’s huge! It’s unbelievable.”

Kinds of Examples. Actions for Democracy can take a myriad of forms:

  • Volunteering and/or donating to local, state, and/or national elections.
  • Joining activist organizations such as Indivisible, Move On, Swing Left, and/or Common Cause.
  • Donating through Seed the Vote, the Movement Voter Project, and/or Act Blue.

The list of different ways we can Act for Democracy is very long. We hope you will share what you are doing with the Pray for Democracy/Act for Democracy Campaign.

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