the Web Editors

We continue to pray for a just peace in Darfur, where violence persists.

In the wake of the largest oil spill in China, we pray for the cleanup efforts in Dalian, that you would grant your good graces to those endeavors.

As an act of love, prayer is a courageous act. It is a risk we take. It is a life-and-death risk, believing in the promises of the gospel, that God’s love is indeed operative in the world.

The “real movement” of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for.

- Thomas More
English philosopher, lawyer, and author of Utopia

God, we lift up all those things that have fallen out of the public spotlight, none of which is unimportant to you: wars, conflicts, droughts, famines, floods, broken homes, broken families, displa

On prisoners of darkness

the sun begins to rise,

the dawning of forgiveness

upon the sinner’s eyes,

to guide the feet of pilgrims

[God] has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; [God] has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty.

For the breath of life, God, thank you. For the opportunities you place in our paths every day, God, thank you. For the strength to meet the challenges that come against us, God, thank you.