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Voice of the Day: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by God's Politics Editor 05-25-2012

"If the evil doings of men move you to indignation and overwhelming distress, even to a desire for vengeance on the evildoers, shun above all thing that feeling. Go at once and seek suffering for yourself, as though you were yourself guilty of that wrong. Accept that suffering and bear it and your heart will find comfort, and you will understand that you too are guilty, for you might have been a light to the evildoers and were not a light to them."  - Fyodor Dostoyevsky from The Brothers Karamazov

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Verse of the Day: 'They Shall All Know Me'

by God's Politics Editor 05-25-2012

"No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know the Lord’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more." - Jeremiah 31:34

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Prayer of the Day: You Never Let Go

by God's Politics Editor 05-25-2012

Merciful God, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, your perfect love is casting out fear. Even when I’m caught in the middle of the storms of this life, please let me know you are near. Lord, you never let go of me. You never let go. Amen. Adapted from "You Never Let Go" / Matt Redman

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Voice of the Day: Cara Rubinstein

by God's Politics Editor 05-24-2012

"War is like an ugly face laughing and making fun of you as you stand lost in the cold and all you hear are woodpeckers pecking the trees. / The magic of the night’s peace comes when everyone is sleeping / Don’t you wish it would come more often?" - Cara Rubinstein from “The Peace of the Night”

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Verse of the Day: The Planter and the Waterer

by God's Politics Editor 05-24-2012

"The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labor of each. For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building." - 1 Corinthians 3:8-9

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Prayer of the Day: A House Wide Enough for All

by God's Politics Editor 05-24-2012

God of all humankind, make the roof of our house wide enough for all opinions. Oil the door of our house so it opens easily to friend and stranger and set such a table in our house that our whole family may speak kindly and freely around it. Amen. Adapted from A prayer from Hawaii, 1000 World Prayers

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Voice of the Day: Townes Van Zandt

by God's Politics Editor 05-23-2012

"Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap." - Townes Van Zandt

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Verse of the Day: Your Commandments and Decrees Delight

by God's Politics Editor 05-23-2012

"Trouble and anguish have come upon me, but your commandments are my delight. Your decrees are righteous for ever; give me understanding that I may live." - Psalm 119:143-144

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Prayer of the Day: 'Offended by Your Revelations'

by God's Politics Editor 05-23-2012

Protect us, Lord, from being so offended by your revelations that we curse your prophets. Guard us from being so foolishly blinded by your majesty that we lose any sense of how to speak as your witness. Rather, help our lips praise you for your glory. Amen.
Taken from the May 23 reflection in Common Prayer: A liturgy for ordinary radicals.

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Voice of the Day: Barbara Brown Taylor

by God's Politics Editor 05-22-2012

"My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.” - Barbara Brown Taylor from An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

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