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Verse of the Day: Servants of the Lord
But as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute.
- 2 Corinthians [...]
Ryan Beiler: Dirty Deeds Not Done Dirt Cheap
Thanks to Christianity Today for quoting Brian McLaren, Jim Wallis, and
Voice of the Day: Louis Brandeis
There is in most Americans some spark of idealism, which can be fanned into a flame. It takes sometimes a divining rod to find what it is; but when found, and that means often, when disclosed to the owners, the results are often extraordinary.
-Louis Brandeis
Voice of the Day: Rafael Correa
If our moral duty to provide health, education and housing to our people impedes us from paying debt, we won't hesitate two seconds.
- Rafael Correa, recently elected president of Ecuador (Source: Bloomberg)
Verse of the Day: Remission of Debts
Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts. And this is the manner of the remission: every creditor shall remit the claim that is held against a neighbor, not exacting it of a neighbor who is a member of the community, because the Lord's remission has been proclaimed.
- Deuteronomy 15:1-2
Voice of the Day: Saint Therese of Lisieux
Verse of the Day: 'The bond of peace'
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
- Ephesians 4:1-3
Voice of the Day: Louis Brandeis
In frank expression of conflicting opinion lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action; and in suppression lies ordinarily the greatest peril.
- Louis Brandeis, from his opinion in the 1920 Supreme Court case Gilbert v. Minnesota
Brian McLaren: How Does Saddam's Execution Make You Feel?
I see little or no value to weighing in on the subject of capital punishment. People have their opinions and relatively few seem interested in changing them. But I would like to express in personal terms how I felt after the news coverage of Saddam Hussein's hanging. I'd like to share it especially [...]
Brian McLaren: How Does Saddam's Execution Make You Feel?
I see little or no value to weighing in on the subject of capital punishment. People have their opinions and relatively few seem interested in changing them. But I would like to express in personal terms how I felt after the news coverage of Saddam Hussein's hanging. I'd like to share it especially [...]
Jim Wallis' Books of the Year
Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter
The Audacity of Hope, [...]
Verse of the Day: Only One Judge
There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. So who, then, are you to judge your neighbor?
- James 4:12-12
Joe Roos: Americans Abroad Face Hussein Hanging Backlash
 (Photo from a protest in India during a visit by George W. Bush earlier in 2006, by Gautam Singh, AP) |
Nationwide demonstrations against the United States and the execution of Saddam Hussein got close and personal for me, my wife, Cheri Herrboldt, and our six-year-old [...]
Jim Wallis' Books of the Year
Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter
The Audacity of Hope, [...]
Voice of the Day: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Enemies
[N]ever be conceited. With respect to our attitude toward our enemies, this means first, remember that you were God's enemy and that, without having earned it or being worthy of it, you were met with mercy. It means second, remember that God hung on the cross for your enemy too, and love God and God loves you.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Duane Shank: Politicizing Ford's Passing?
Judging from your comments, my piece on the passing of former president Gerald Ford seems to have rubbed some people on both sides the wrong [...]
Verse of the Day: Oppression is for Losers
Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.
- Proverbs 22:16-16
Voice of the Day: Merton on Protest
The important thing about protest is not so much the short-range possibility of changing the direction of policies, but the longer range aim of helping everyone gain an entirely new attitude toward war. Far from doing this, much current protest simply reinforces the old positions by driving the adversary back into the familiar and secure mythology of force. Hence the strong "patriotic" reaction against protests in the United States. [...]
Duane Shank: Politicizing Ford's Passing?
Judging from your comments, my piece on the passing of former president Gerald Ford seems to have rubbed some people on both sides the wrong [...]
Verse of the Day: Pure Religion
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- James 1:27-27