With words we cry out for justice in our lives and our world.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
for the rights of all who are destitute.
Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:8-9

Explore these worship resources to discover ‘Justice Words’ relevant to your experience and situation — responding to racism, refugees, homophobia, and general injustice.

Worship resources responding to racism
Worship resources responding to our treatment of refugees
Worship resources responding to homophobia
Worship resources responding to injustice in our world

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 Worship resources responding to racism…

Black — Karen Campbell, UK

Black and Proud — Veronica Daniel, UK

Black History Month

Black Lives Matter – a children’s message

Black Lives Matter — Veronica Daniel

Genesis 1:26, What colour is God?, Children’s message — Ana Gobledale, UK

Holy Week Litany for White People Working against Racism — Amanda Udis-Kessler, USA

I am…Somebody — Jesse Jackson, Chicago, Illinois USA

I Dream a World — Langston Hughes, USA

In God’s Image — Karen Campbell, UK

In our praying, anger and action — a prayer from the United Reformed Church in Great Britain

Kairos! — Karen Campbell, UK

Marked at Birth – Ana Gobledale, Zambia & UK

Remembering George Floyd, Candle of Justice — Churches Together in Britain & Ireland

Reparations, a hymn — Raymond Stanyon, UK

Slavery Memorial Day, 23 August

Uncovering Black Presence in the Bible — Onleilove Alston, USA

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Worship resources responding to our treatment of refugees…

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, 24 April

Christ comes as a refugee, hymn — George Stuart, Australia

Dream of Dignity, hymn — George Stuart, Australia

Gathering Prayer, World Refugee Day — Church World Service, USA

Prayer for Asylum Seekers — United Church of Canada

Prayer for Nakba Day — Rabbi Brant Rosen

Prayer for Refugees — Marla Feldman, USA

Prayer for Refugees — United Church of Canada

Prayer for Refugees in Danger – Rebecca Littlejohn, USA

Prayers for a people and nation, Luke 9:51-62 — Tyler Reeve, USA

Prayers for our world — Loren McGrail, USA

When the Road Seems Closed, a prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

World Refugee Day – 20 June

World Refugee Day Call to Worship – Church World Service, USA

World Refugee Day prayer service — Alydia Smith and Khwaka Kukubo, Canada

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Worship resources responding to homophobia

31 March, Trans Day of Visibility

Beautiful Diversity, responsive reading — Ben Saunders, USA

For gay and for straight, a place at the table, hymn — Shirley Erena Murray, New Zealand

Gems, Transgender Day of Remembrance Reflection — Robyn Golden-Hann, UK

Home, where are you? — Tarek Abuata, USA

Inclusive Hymns — Sylvia Hook, Canada

Proud: Pride Day Reading — Amanda Udis-Kessler, USA

Psalm 139 Call to Worship — Mark Manterfield

Psalm 139 retold — Cara Heafey, Oxford UK

Queer Sacred Songs — Amanda Udis-Kessler, USA

Rainbow images

Transgender Day of Remembrance, 20 Nov

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Alphabetical archive of ‘Justice Words’ resources responding to injustice in our world. . .

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day – 24 April

Christmas Carols with Justice — SimpleLiving, USA

Confession of a Class-Bound Church — Amanda Udis-Kessler, USA

Day of Remembrance, Canada, 6 Dec

Election Prayer — David Ouston, UK

Equity Prayer, Isaiah 11 — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Feast — Karen Campbell, UK

Franciscan Benediction

Go break down walls, benediction – WCC

Growing peace — Steve Garnaas-Holmes, USA

Heartbeat of God’s love, Fire of God’s justice–Lawrence Moore, UK

Help me stay awake, prayer — Cara Heafey, UK

Help us share our abundance, a prayer — Christian Concern for One World, UK

Home musings — Ana Gobledale, UK

I think without creeds — Gerardo Oberman, Argentina

Just Language — Kaye Ashe, USA

Justice dwellers, prayer — Simon Cross, UK

Justice Prayer — Amanda Udis-Kessler, USA

LGBT+ worship resources

Litany of Love — Zach Ford, UK

Our violent world, Confession, Advent 2 — Allison Goerke, USA

Prayer and Action for Peace — Ana Gobledale, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for peace & illumination — Ana & Tod Gobledale, UK

Prayer for peace in a world starved for love, James Evans McReynolds, USA

Prayer for Reconciliation — Ana Gobledale, UK

Prayer for religious tolerance – Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer response to natural disaster — Christian Aid UK

Prayers arising from Amos 7 — Ana Gobledale, UK

Prayers for Palestine & Israel — Jan Sutch Pickard

Prayers in the face of Horror: responding to Woolwich — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 48, Longing for Justice — Merryl Blair, Australia

Psalm 72 refreshed – Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm for Lent — Duncan Wilson, UK

Rachel weeps — Steve Garnaas-Holmes, USA

Reign of Christ, Intercessions — Cara Heafey, UK

Remembering Genocide, prayer — Armenian Remembrance Day, Dublin

Reparations, a hymn — Raymond Stanyon, UK

Responsive prayer inspired by Luke 12:13-21 — Ana & Tod Gobledale

Seeker of Justice, new words to ‘Fairest Lord Jesus’ – Jim Burklo, USA

Spiritual Practice — Alan Paton

The Jerusalem Prayer

Transgender Day of Remembrance, 20 Nov

Wild God, talking to Jesus – John van de Laar, South Africa

World Week for Peace in Palestine & Israel

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