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Prayers for Peacemakers, December 19, 2012

By demo

December 19, 2012

Epixel* for December 23, 2012

…and he shall be the one of peace.
-Micah 5:5a

*epixel: a snapshot-epistle to the churches related to and
appearing with a text from the upcoming Sunday’s Revised
Common Lectionary readings.

Prayers for
Peacemakers, December 19, 2012

Join in the prayers of
people pursuing social justice in the United States, including people touched
by prisons, migration, homelessness, racism, sexism or other oppressions,
struggling toward the “country that does not exist, of which we are
citizens.”

Related article: United States: At home in beloved community

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