Adding a voluntary invocation before board meetings ... That would allow, for example, prayers to be said by religious groups different than only those followed by board members.

Strickland has pointed to an invocation given Dec. 6 by Rabbi Stephen Einstein, co-founder of the Interfaith Council, at the inauguration of the four new members. In the prayer, Einstein ...

Village officials said the brief invocation prayer would lend solemnity and would be sensitive to the diversity of faiths within the village. The leader of the invocation would use common language ...