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Verse of the Day: 'By justice a king gives stability to the land'
By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who makes heavy exactions ruins it.
- Proverbs 29:4
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Voice of the Day: Teaching Scripture as a Story
Teaching scripture as a story allows God's story to become a guiding light for the learner. Resources for faith are provided that can support a person's character development. Images are presented that can nurture a construction of Christian identity that is faithful to the church.... Hearers become inspired and encouraged to identify their story with the scripture. Readers are equipped to relate and broaden their personal experiences in light of their social existence. Learners are empowered [...]
Audio: Jim Wallis on "Value Voters" on The Tavis Smiley Show
Last week Jim was on The Tavis Smiley Show and talked about how the changing political landscape will affect the upcoming '08 election. Jim and Ken Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state, debated and discussed both the impact of "value voters" on the election and what those values entail.
Verse of the Day: 'peace to the far and the near'
I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will lead them and repay them with comfort, creating for their mourners the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and the near, says the Lord; and I will heal them. But the wicked are like the tossing sea that cannot keep still; its waters toss up mire and mud. There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.
- Isaiah 57:18-21
Voice of the Day: Donders on Jesus' Approach
Jesus' approach is always fresh, surprising, new, and unexpected. Consequently, it always provoked a direct reaction.... He shattered firmly formed convictions and beliefs. He often used nonreligious language, avoiding the religious language of his contemporaries, a language that had been used so long, and so often by so many people, that it had lost its meaning almost completely. He continually used examples from everyday life to express himself.
- Joseph G. [...]
Verse of the Day: The Armor of God
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace. With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation, and [...]
Voice of the Day: Freire on Knowledge
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry [people] pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.
Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Voice of the Day: Children and Faith
Children possess naturally the essential elements for having faith. The Kingdom of God is first perceived in the world children know best. Children, therefore, have as much to offer adults as adults have to offer children-perhaps more.
- John H. Westerhoff III
Bringing Up Children in the Christian Faith
Verse of the Day: 'I the Lord love justice'
For I the Lord love justice, I hate robbery and wrongdoing; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
- Isaiah 61:8
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Voice of the Day: 'render to God the prayer that is owed'
If you are at your manual labor in your room and it comes time to pray, do not say: "I will use up my supply of branches or finish weaving the little basket, and then I will rise." But rise immediately and render to God the prayer that is owed. Otherwise, little by little you come to neglect your prayer and your duty habitually, and your soul will become a wasteland devoid of every spiritual and bodily work. For right at the beginning your will is apparent.
- Sayings of the Desert [...]
Verse of the Day: 'keep an eye on those who cause dissensions'
I urge you, brothers and sisters, to keep an eye on those who cause dissensions and offenses, in opposition to the teaching that you have learned; avoid them. For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded. For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I want you to be wise in what is good and guileless in what is evil.
- Romans 16:17-19
Verse of the Day: Seek Peace
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
- Psalm 34:14
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Voice of the Day: Hannay on Evil Words
The mouth is not a door through which any evil enters. The ears are such doors as are the eyes. The mouth is a door only for exit.
- James O. Hannay
The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers
Verse of the Day: Forgive Others
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;
- Matthew 6:14
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Voice of the Day: On Living a Perfect Day
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who cannot repay you.
- Ruth Smeltzer
Voice of the Day: St. John Chrysostom on Searching the Scriptures
Christ, in sending the [people] to the scriptures, sent them, not merely to read them, but carefully to search and ponder them. And did he not say, "Read the scriptures," but "Search the scriptures." ... Their meaning is not expressed superficially or set forth in their literal sense, but, like a treasure, lies buried at a great depth. And those who seek for hidden things will not be able to find the object of the search if they do not seek carefully and painstakingly.
- St. John [...]
Verse of the Day: 'You must not distort justice'
You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
- Deuteronomy 16:19
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Voice of the Day: Weil on Humility
Verse of the Day: 'God of peace will be with you'
Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
- Philippians 4:9-9
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Voice of the Day: 'The time is ripe.'
There are lots of different people saying lots of different things, and some of them put us off with their craziness and there are lots of points to argue with them about, but at their best they seem to be acting out of a single profound impulse, which is best described with words like tolerance, compassion, sanity, hope, justice. It is an impulse that has always been part of the human heart, but it seems to be welling up into the world with new power in our age now even as the forces of [...]