City councilors voted Wednesday to amend the Council Rules and Order of Business to remove the invocation before regular council meetings and replace it with a moment of “silent prayer or ...

Instead of an opening invocation, the council will now open their meeting with a moment of silent prayer or personal reflection.

The invocation prayers before Tulsa City Council meetings have been getting a lot of attention during the last few months. First, it was Gov. Kevin Stitt, State Superintendent Ryan Walters and ...

The Tulsa City Council will no longer have a prayer before its meetings. The decision came after a pagan woman gave the opening invocation last fall, which drew significant criticism. The council ...

instead of an invocation. One councilor abstained from the vote. District 4 Tulsa City Councilor Laura Bellis proposed switching from an opening prayer at the start of City Council meetings to a ...