The Common Good

Verse And Voice

Prayer of the Day: DREAMers

by God's Politics Editor 05-20-2010
God, we pray for the tens of thousands of young immigrants known as DREAMers: those brought to the U.S. as young children, who grew up in the U.S., for whom the U.S.
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Verse of the Day: One Body in Christ

by God's Politics Editor 05-19-2010
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?
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Prayer of the Day: A Latin-American Lord's Prayer

by God's Politics Editor 05-19-2010
God, who is in us here on earth, holy is your name in the hungry who share their bread and their song. Your Kingdom come, which is a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Voice of the Day: John Perkins

by God's Politics Editor 05-19-2010
Family values and social justice aren't separate issues. The health of the community depends on the health of the family and the health of the family depends on the justice of the community.
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Voice of the Day: Emma Goldman

by God's Politics Editor 05-18-2010
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. - Emma Goldman American writer and lecturer
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Verse of the Day: Calling on God

by God's Politics Editor 05-18-2010
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. Then I called on the name of the Lord:
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Prayer of the Day: Gulf of Mexico

by God's Politics Editor 05-18-2010
As the cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico continues, we pray once again for those involved in those efforts, and for those who have lost livelihoods.
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Voice of the Day: John Wesley

by God's Politics Editor 05-17-2010
Have I rejoiced with and for my neighbor in virtue or pleasure? grieved with [her] in pain, for him in sin? ...
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Verse of the Day: Christ the Shepherd

by God's Politics Editor 05-17-2010
[Christ] himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
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Prayer of the Day: Thailand

by God's Politics Editor 05-17-2010
Prince of Peace, we continue to lift up the country of Thailand, where civil unrest and violence continue to rend this nation apart and divide friends and families.
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