Blog Posts By God's Politics Editor

In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. - Matthew 7:12 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Mary represents the 'rebel consciousness' that is essential to Jesus' gospel. Wherever the gospel is preached, we must remember that its good news will make you crazy. Jesus will put you at odds with the economic and political systems of our world. This gospel will force you to act, interrupting the world as it is in ways that make even pious people indignant. - Emmanuel Katongole + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of your love.

 Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

O Christ, our Morning Star, splendor of Light Eternal, shining with the glory of the rainbow, come and waken us from the greyness of our apathy, and renew in us your gift of hope. Amen. -Bede the Venerable

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. [The LORD] does not faint or grow weary; God's understanding is unsearchable. - Isaiah 40:28 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Sojourners President and CEO Jim Wallis sat down with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's 'This Week' to discuss his latest book On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned About Serving the Common Good. He joined a roundtable of guests to discuss themes in his book, as well as engage in a broader discussion about the Common Good. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. 

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast. - Ephesians 2:8-9 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

The good news is that God loves me long before I could have done anything to deserve it. - Desmond Tutu + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Receive, Lord, the offering of our lives : that every breath might be holy to you.

The LORD passed before [Moses] and proclaimed, "The Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness." - Exodus 34:6 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. - Anne Lamott + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Giver of all good things, grant that we might grow in the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, for there is no law against such things. And as we do so, may we see change in our lives, in the lives of those around us, in the communities, nations, and world that we live in. All for your glory. Amen.

I am the LORD your God, and I rescued you from Egypt, so that you would never again be slaves. I have set you free; now walk with your heads held high. (The Poverty and Justice Bible) - Leviticus 26:13 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Can we announce the gospel in the same way to the oppressor and to the oppressed, to the torturer and the tortured? - Mortimer Arias + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Thank you, Lord, for Mary’s witness to joyful obedience, courageous faith, and the merciful truth that you dwell among those the world would forget. Amen.

The LORD protects the faithful, but he severely punishes everyone who is proud. - Psalm 31:23 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

The atomic bomb brought an empty victory ... but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see. - Mahatma Gandhi + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Lord, we remember those who have given their lives for the sake of justice and freedom. Help us not to take our own freedom lightly, but to use it to advocate relentlessly for the freedom of others. Amen.

For [the LORD] did not despise or abhor the affliction of the afflicted; [God] did not hide [God's] face from me, but heard when I cried to [God].  - Psalm 22:24 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Editor's Note: Pope Francis delivered the following homily at his inaugural Mass on Tuesday, emphasizing the need to protect the poor and the environment. Dear Brothers and Sisters,I thank the Lord that I can celebrate this Holy Mass for the inauguration of my Petrine ministry on the solemnity of Saint Joseph, the spouse of the Virgin Mary and the patron of the universal Church. It is a significant coincidence, and it is also the name-day of my venerable predecessor: we are close to him with our prayers, full of affection and gratitude.I offer a warm greeting to my brother cardinals and bishops, the priests, deacons, men and women religious, and all the lay faithful. I thank the representatives of the other Churches and ecclesial Communities, as well as the representatives of the Jewish community and the other religious communities, for their presence. My cordial greetings go to the Heads of State and Government, the members of the official Delegations from many countries throughout the world, and the Diplomatic Corps.In the Gospel we heard that "Joseph did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took Mary as his wife" (Mt 1:24). These words already point to the mission which God entrusts to Joseph: he is to be the custos, the protector. The protector of whom? Of Mary and Jesus; but this protection is then extended to the Church, as Blessed John Paul II pointed out: "Just as Saint Joseph took loving care of Mary and gladly dedicated himself to Jesus Christ’s upbringing, he likewise watches over and protects Christ’s Mystical Body, the Church, of which the Virgin Mary is the exemplar and model" (Redemptoris Custos, 1).How does Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand. From the time of his betrothal to Mary until the finding of the twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem, he is there at every moment with loving care. As the spouse of Mary, he is at her side in good times and bad, on the journey to Bethlehem for the census and in the anxious and joyful hours when she gave birth; amid the drama of the flight into Egypt and during the frantic search for their child in the Temple; and later in the day-to-day life of the home of Nazareth, in the workshop where he taught his trade to Jesus.

The people of the land have practised extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the alien without redress. - Ezekiel 22:29 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

I have frequently been threatened with death. I must say that, as a Christian, I do not believe in death but in the resurrection. If they kill me, I shall rise again in the Salvadoran people. Martyrdom is a great gift from God that I do not believe I have earned. But if God accepts the sacrifice of my life, then my blood will be like the seed of liberty, and a sign of the hope that will soon become a reality. - Archbishop Oscar Romero + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

 Lord, not only in the roar of a hard rain, but in the dousing, dipping, drenching of our baptism, call us to live into that new life that is your resurrection. Amen. - From Common River