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Verse of the Day: Better Poor but Wise
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king, who will no longer take advice.
- Ecclesiastes 4:13-13
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Verse of the Day: Peace and Unity
For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.
- Ephesians 2:14
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Voice of the Day: Saint Basil
If you live alone, whose feet will you wash?
- Saint Basil
Quoted in How Shall We Live by Joan Chittister, OSB.
Verse of the Day: "Lover of Justice"
Let them praise your great and awesome name. Holy is he! Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
- Psalms 99:3-4
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Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton
Better just to smell a flower in the garden...than to have an unauthentic experience of a much higher value. Better to honestly enjoy the sunshine or some light reading than to claim to be in contact with something that one is not in contact with at all.
- Thomas Merton
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss
Verse of the Day: 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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Verse of the Day: Visions of the Kingdom
When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and marauders have vanished from the land, then a throne shall be established in steadfast love in the tent of David, and on it shall sit in faithfulness a ruler who seeks justice and is swift to do what is right.
- Isaiah 16:4-5
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Voice of the Day: Bede Bede
We have a consoler, our Lord Jesus Christ. Although we cannot see him with bodily eyes, we keep in written form in the Gospels the things he did and taught while he was bodily among us. If we take care to hear, read, and confer with each other about these things, which need to be preserved in our hearts and bodies, we will certainly conquer the obstacles of this age as surely as if the Lord were always standing by us and consoling us.
- Bede Bede
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh [...]
An American Military Observer in Darfur interview by Becky Garrison
An interview with Brian Steidle, a former American military observer in Darfur and the subject of the documentary film and book The Devil Came on Horseback.
Briefly explain why you were in Darfur.
I had been in Sudan for seven months prior going to Darfur. Even though I was in Sudan, I had very little idea what was going [...]
Voice of the Day: Wanye Muller
At our best, we become Sabbath for one another. We are the emptiness, the day of rest. We become space, that our loved ones, the lost and sorrowful, may find rest in us.
--Wayne Muller
From "Sabbath" quoted in How Shall We Live by Joan Chittister, OSB.
Verse of the Day:
For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peacable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits without a trace of partiality or hypocricy. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.
- James 3:16-18
Verse of the Day: Peace
If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
- Matthew 10:13
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Voice of the Day: Frederick Buechner on Repentance
Biblically speaking, to repent doesn't mean to feel sorry about, to regret. It means to turn, to turn around 180 degrees. It means to undergo a complete change of mind, heart, direction. Turn away from madness, cruelty, shallowness, blindness. Turn toward the tolerance, compassion, sanity, hope, justice that we all have in us at our best.
- Frederick Buechner
from Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
Verse of the Day: Pursuing Peace
Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
- Romans 14:19
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Daoud Kuttab: Good News for Palestinian Christians
I first heard about the letter of the evangelical leaders through an e-mail from Professor Ron Sider, who used to teach at Messiah College, where I graduated. It was a gift from heaven after so many bad statements by evangelicals justifying killings, occupation, and the pillage of our land using [...]
Voice of the Day: Dwight Vogel
When Martin Luther got up in the morning and put water on his face, he would say, "I am baptized!" It was a way of reminding himself that living out his baptism was a key to discipleship ... For us as well as for Martin Luther, the baptismal covenant is to be lived out in daily discipleship. The call to discipleship is a call to be part of a community of faith. When a traveling rabbi in the first century said: "Come, follow me," it was not only an invitation to respond personally but to become [...]
Verse of the Day: Filled with the Spirit of the Lord
But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin. Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob and chiefs of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity, who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong!
- Micah 3:8-10
Justin Alexander: Stating the Odious
When Saddam Hussein's regime executed someone, it required the victim's family to pay for the bullets used. An appalling practice - but one which, Iraqis in the Jubilee Iraq campaign say, bears all too much resemblance to present-day demands that Iraq's people pay debts Hussein racked up during the Iran-Iraq war, which devastated the country and claimed around a million lives. [...]
Verse of the Day: Speak Truth to One Another
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace, do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.
- Zechariah 8:16-17
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Voice of the Day: Joan Chittister
The function of prayer is not to establish a routine; it is to establish a relationship with God who is in relationship with us always.... The function of prayer is to bring us into touch with ourselves, as well. To the ancients, "tears of compunction" were the sign of a soul that knew its limits, faced its sins, accepted its needs, and lived in hope.
- Joan Chittister
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss