Wayne Mellinger, "Some Social Justice Prayers" (2017-2018)
Some Social Justice Prayers Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. The following prayers were originally written in 2017-2018 to accompany my essay “Bearing Witness to Social Injustice as a Spiritual Practice”. At the time I was concerned with the process of eyewitnessing things that shouldn't exist and turning that experience into holy work contributing to the advance of social justice. We were two years into the Trump Administration and I felt as if the arc of the moral universe was no longer bending toward justice. In the midst of this time of increasing suffering one event stood to me: the gathering of five hundred interfaith clergy in Standing Rock to peacefully bear witness to the desecrati...