Each Sunday morning, bridging our informal gathering time, during which we share from our lives, and our formal worship time, a different person, usually from Seekers, offers a prayer for peace and justice. Each person chooses what to say, with no prompting or guidance from the coordinator other than to be brief, prayerful and focused on peace and justice. On this page, we offer the text of some of those prayers.
A Prayer to Heal the Wounds Caused by Antisemitism
Praying for Peace and Justice on March 17, 2024 The Call of Seekers Church says that we see ourselves as “called into Christ’s ministryof deliverance from bondage to freedom in every personal and corporate expression.We recognize the value of each individual and seek to heal any wounds ofdiscrimination inflicted by our society and church.” As I take seriously this season’s reflection about the Church’s responsibility to addressWhite supremacy, I cannot help feeling that while it is essential, it is also insufficient.Almost from its very beginnings, what eventually came to be known as the Church,began to differentiate itself from the Jewish…