The Common Good

Verse And Voice

Verse of the Day: "Standing at the Right Hand of the Needy"

by Administrator 02-02-2007

With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise [God] in the midst of the throng. For [the Lord] stands at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those who would condemn them to death.

- Psalms 109:30-31

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Verse of the Day: Jesus, as Servant Leader

by Administrator 02-01-2007

You call me Teacher and Lord - and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

- John 13:13-15

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Voice of the Day: Etty Hillesum

by Administrator 01-31-2007

Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears [their] grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge - from which new sorrorws will be born for others - then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.

- Etty Hillesum
quoted in Marc Ellis, "Toward [...]

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Verse of the Day: Uplifiting the Poor and the Needy

by Administrator 01-31-2007

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.

- 1 Samuel 2:8-8

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Verse of the Day: Living in the Lord

by Administrator 01-30-2007

If we live, we live in the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For this end Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. Why then do you pass judgment on your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

- Romans 14:8-10

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Voice of the Day: Naim Ateek

by Administrator 01-30-2007

[N]either the stockpiling of sophisticated armaments nor an extensoin of territory are an adequate guarantee or a viable substitute for peace. They are illusory. The best borders are peaceful borders, and the best security lies in a truly peaceful relationship between neighbors.

- Naim Ateek

from "Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation"

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Verse of the Day: "Let the Earth Rejoice"

by Administrator 01-29-2007

The Lord is king! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

- Psalms 97:1-2

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Verse of the Day: "Let the Earth Rejoice"

by Administrator 01-29-2007

The Lord is king! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

- Psalms 97:1-2

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Verse of the Day: "Let the Earth Rejoice"

by Administrator 01-29-2007

The Lord is king! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

- Psalms 97:1-2

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Voice of the Day: James Baldwin

by Administrator 01-29-2007

[T]his is the crime of which I assuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.

- James Baldwin
from The Fire Next Time

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