'Let us kneel before the Lord'

Bodily Prayer engages our whole self in prayer

When I was in seminary, we learned to use the orans position - lifting our hands - as both a priestly posture and a general prayer posture.

We learned that ancient Christians - like modern Muslims and Jews - faced East to pray at sunrise.

So in this particular class, every time we gathered, we first rose to our feet, faced East together, and lifted our ha…