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We gather to seek asylum from a world that sets neighbor against neighbor.

We gather to seek asylum from the temptation to draw and enforce boundaries that mean we can describe other people as not our problem.

We gather to seek asylum from a worldview that values us primarily as consumers, as wealth-generators, as units of production and consumption.

We gather to seek asylum from the binaries that bind and constrain us.

We gather to seek asylum from the very church(es) in whose name we gather, in which orthodoxy and hierarchy have been tools of oppression and abuse.

We name ourselves as asylum-seekers.

We pray that in our seeking, we may create that asylum for which we yearn.

We pray that, starting here, starting now, our seeking may crack open the empires that we resist and turn away from so that the whole world may be transformed into a place of safe asylum for all.