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Verse of the Day: 'Justice and the love of God'
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds, and neglect justice and the love of God; it is these you ought to have practiced, without neglecting the others.
- Luke 11:42-42
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Voice of the Day: Thich Nhat Hanh
[Y]ou cannot judge the value of an action based on whether or not it brings success. You have to judge the value of an action in relation to the action itself.... I think we may fail in our attempt to do things, yet we may succeed in the correct action when the action is authentically nonviolent, based on understanding, based on love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Interview by Catherine Ingram, In the Footsteps of Gandhi
Verse of the Day: 'Those whose teeth are swords'
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.
- Proverbs 30:14-14
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American Christians Should Listen to Christian Arabs /by Ryan Rodrick Beiler/
Here are some key quotes from a Christianity Today interview with "Beirut-based journalist Rami Khouri, a Palestinian-Jordanian Christian. ... An American citizen, he is editor-at-large of The Daily Star, the largest English-language newspaper in the Middle East. He is also director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of [...]
Voice of the Day: Joan Chittister
Study is hard work. It is so much easier to find something else to do in its place than to stay at the grind of it. We have excuses aplenty for avoiding the dull, hard, daily attempt to learn. There is always something so much more important to do than reading. There is always some excuse for not stretching our souls with new ideas and insights now or yet or ever.
- Joan Chittister
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss
Voice of the Day: Peter of Celle
I consider a room without reading to be a hell without consolation, an instrument of torture without relief, a prison without light, a tomb without ventilation, a ditch swarming with worms, a strangling noose, the empty house of which the Gospel speaks.
- Peter of Celle
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss
Verse of the Day: Deuteronomy on Non-Predatory Lending
When you make your neighbor a loan of any kind, ... If the person is poor, you shall not sleep in the garment given you as the pledge. You shall give the pledge back by sunset, so that your neighbor may sleep in the cloak and bless you; and it will be to your credit before the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 24:10-13
Distorting History /by David Cortright/
In an attempt to scare off support for a military exit from Iraq, President Bush in a recent speech made the false claim that U.S. disengagement from Vietnam caused the killing fields in Cambodia. The price of American withdrawal, [...]
Verse of the Day: 'Lover of justice'
The Lord is great in Zion; [and] is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name. ... Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness.
- Psalms 99:2-4
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Voice of the Day: The Rule of Benedict
Prayer should be brief and pure, unless it happen to be lengthened by an impulse or inspiration of divine grace.
- The Rule of Benedict
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss
Words, Not War: Building a Bridge to Peace Between the U.S. and Iran /by Jessica Wilbanks/
Last week's announcement that the Bush administration is seeking to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization is the latest drumbeat in an intensifying confrontation that could lead to war.
In an interview with The New York Times, former Iranian deputy [...]
Verse of the Day: 'Then who can be saved?'
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astounded and said, "Then who can be saved?" But Jesus looked at them and said, "For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible."
- Matthew 19:23-26
Voice of the Day: Morton T. Kelsey
One cannot go in for silence in a big way, make a pile and then retire. It would be better to settle for a more modest undertaking so that one could stay in business and keep at it. Otherwise the profits soon dry up.
- Morton T. Kelsey
from The Other Side of Silence
Verse of the Day: 'The Lord loves justice'
Depart from evil, and do good; so you shall abide forever. For the Lord loves justice; [God] will not forsake [God's] faithful ones. The righteous shall be kept safe forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Psalms 37:27-28
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Voice of the Day: Hildegard of Bingen
Wordiness in the divine office counts for almost nothing before God.
- Hildegard of Bingen
from "Explanation of the Rule of Benedict." Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss.
My Minnesota /by Tony Jones/
But for three hiatuses for school, I've lived my whole life in the Twin Cities, and my heritage and skin tone match the Lake Wobegon image of my city and state. I'm the descendant of German, Norwegian, Welsh, and British immigrants. I've even been known to utter "you betcha" on occasion. But the new faces of Minnesota have been on display in the wake of the I-35W bridge collapse on August [...]
Voice of the Day: Naim Ateek
The Church should proclaim its concept of God, as it has come to know God through Christ, to all people in society, including Muslims and Jews. This should be done unashamedly and uncompromisingly. The Church should insist on what God is really like - not in a spirit of superiority or condescension, but in humility and love. The Church must be conscious of its own failure in not living up to the responsibility of the knowledge of God that it has been given. It has not attained perfection, but [...]
Verse of the Day: Woe!
But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.
- Luke 6:24-26
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Audio: Jim Wallis on the BBC
Jim Wallis on the BBC Radio program "Reporting Religion," talking on July 30 about faith, politics, and Gordon Brown.
Sanctuary Movement Activist Arrested and Deported /by Patty Kupfer/
Elvira Arellano, the young mother who sparked the New Sanctuary Movement and appears prominently in the current issue of