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A Prayers for Three Muslim Students Killed in North Carolina By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post Holy God of Openness and Peace, our hearts are broken as we mourn the deaths of three Muslim university students who were shot to death in their home in North Carolina. Their faith led Deah Barakat …
A Prayer for Safety as We Gather Together By Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post On Sunday, August 5, as Sikh Americans gathered for communal prayers in their temple south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a gunman entered the building, opened fire, and killed six people and wounded thre…
A Prayer about the Death Penalty By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post God Who Breaks Chains, 32 American states have the death penalty for certain crimes. Public opinion remains divided on this practice, even after something went wrong during the lethal injection exec…
Prayer for the Victims at Charlie Hebdo By Frederic Brussat Blog Post O Loving One, Ya Wadud, we grieve with the parents, family, and friends of the 12 people who were killed at the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, by two Fre…
Disarmed by Social Media By Margaret Wakeley Blog Post Societies depend on dialogue to function well. These days social media allows us to talk more than ever, but often that means declaring our opinions: talking "at" instead of "to" others. This approa…
A Prayer for Suicide Victims By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Newspapers, magazines, and television reports deliver the story of another suicide: a famous filmmaker leaps to his death off a bridge, a college student exposed by classmates as being gay takes his…
A Prayer in Response to the Orlando Mass Shooting By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post Comforting God, we awoke this morning to news of the deadliest mass shooting on United States soil in modern history. Once again we are called to prayer and reflection about gun violence and hate cr…
Prayer for All Victims of Violence and Oppression in 2014 By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post We ask for your mercy, Lover of Humanity, for our complicity in making 2014 a year of "historic failure" of human rights. All too often we have been so wrapped up and consumed by our work and family…
A Prayer for Peace and Justice By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Hope for the World, we pray that you might break the chains of hatred, prejudice, and fear that keep people enslaved to the violence that almost destroyed the United States during the Civil War and …
A Prayer for Courage after the Charleston Shooting By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post On Wednesday night, June 17, a young man walked into the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where people had gathered for Bible study and prayer. After sitting with them for …

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