A peace-centered, affirming community grounded in practice, presence, and care
Monthly Peace Gatherings bring people together for reflection, embodied practice, and a shared commitment to peace. Rooted in nonviolence and care, they welcome people across religious, spiritual, and secular backgrounds.
Why call it “church”?
Because church, at its best, names a place where people gather to practice care, speak truth, and cultivate attention, accountability, and peace. We use the word not to enforce belief or certainty, but to hold space and honor an older tradition of communities formed around peace, conscience, and shared responsibility.
Vision
Brooklyn Peace Church is a community devoted to practicing peace in a complex and plural world. We gather to cultivate compassionate presence, ethical responsibility, and shared life across difference—within ourselves, among one another, and in the wider world.
We are an affirming, anti-racist, and nonviolent community. We welcome and honor people of all genders, sexual orientations, races, cultures, abilities, and spiritual backgrounds. We gather not to enforce belief or certainty, but to practice ways of being together that resist harm, domination, and exclusion.
Our life together is shaped by simplicity, embodied reflection, communal listening, and a commitment to justice rooted in mercy. We understand love not as sentiment or ideology, but as a practice of wakefulness: attentive to suffering, accountable to one another, grounded in care for the vulnerable, and courageous in the face of violence and injustice. This love invites us to remain present to conflict without coercion and to build communities capable of repair.
We draw wisdom from multiple religious, spiritual, and human traditions, creating space for prayer, meditation, silence, dialogue, and shared reflection. Within this openness, Brooklyn Peace Church stands in relationship with the Mennonite tradition and its historic commitments to nonviolence, conscience, and community discernment. We receive this inheritance as a living source that informs our practice, while remaining free to grow, adapt, and learn in conversation with the wider world.
Brooklyn Peace Church exists to support people in cultivating lives of peace—within themselves, among one another, and in the wider world—through shared gathering, reflection, and sustained practices that nurture dignity, belonging, healing, and the flourishing of all life.
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