There was invocation of St Catherine of Siena in the bishop of London's address, with its striking opening quotation: "Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire" (the martyr, it turns out, was plagued by eating disorders and kept herself alive by eating communion wafers).
There were many invocations of hearings past.
Most of the conventioneers were neatly groomed, shunning wild hairstyles or flashy jewelry, and there were frequent invocations of God and country.
There were repeated invocations of Ehud Barak's infamous statement that Israel is a "villa in the jungle," which caused controversy in 2006 but now is gaining traction even among liberals most sympathetic to the Arab cause.
Between 1999 and 2010, there were roughly 130 invocations.
In addition, there were no blessings, invocations, benedictions or words of Torah as part of the flow of the conference, let alone any organized minyans or other distinctly Jewish rituals.
There are optimistic invocations of a multiracial Commonwealth, family-album photos of colonial life, forbidden shots, collisions, burning buildings.
There are multiple invocations of Martin Luther King Jr, and an excerpt of his "I have a dream" speech is literally on repeat in one gallery – as if Basquiat, whose career began two decades after the March on Washington, was the first black American artist ever to reckon with racism and justice.
There is an invocation to make sure your feminist group has a "safe space policy" using trigger warnings when appropriate.
There is no invocation of natural law; the argument isn't that all men have an inherent right to kill when threatened.
