Brooklyn Peace Church is a member of Atlantic Coast Conference of the Mennonite Church USA
Vision
Brooklyn Peace Church stands in relationship with the Mennonite tradition through its historic commitment to peace, simplicity, community discernment, and nonviolence. This lineage emerges from the Radical Reformation, which emphasized lived faith, resistance to coercive power, and the formation of communities shaped by conscience and care.
Today, we understand these commitments less as religious boundary markers and more as practices for shared life in a complex and plural world. We gather not to enforce belief or certainty, but to cultivate attention, ethical responsibility, and the capacity to live with one another across difference.
Our life together is shaped by practices of simplicity, embodied reflection, nonviolence, communal listening, and a concern for justice rooted in mercy. We draw wisdom from multiple religious, spiritual, and human traditions, while remaining grounded in a peace-centered inheritance that resists domination, harm, and exclusion.
We understand love not as sentiment or ideology, but as a practiced orientation toward life—one that calls us into accountability with one another, care for the vulnerable, and courage in the face of violence and injustice. This love asks us to take difference seriously, to remain present to conflict without coercion, and to build community capable of repair.
Brooklyn Peace Church exists to support people in practicing peace—within themselves, among one another, and in the wider world—through shared gathering, reflection, and commitment to nonviolent ways of living.
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