The online editorial staff comprises Betsy Shirley, Jenna Barnett, Josiah R. Daniels, Mitchell Atencio, Heather Brady, Kierra Bennning, and Zachary Lee.

Posts By This Author

Prayer of the Day: South Africa

by the Web Editors 06-18-2010
As the World Cup shines the public spotlight on South Africa, we celebrate the victories you have won through your people there: overcoming legalized apartheid, encouraging repentance, forgiveness

Voice of the Day: Paula Ripple

by the Web Editors 06-18-2010
Tension is God’s gift to us, a gift that sometimes will not permit us to escape its presence. I believe that our creative energies are activated by just that kind of upsetting tension.

Verse of the Day: Abide in Christ

by the Web Editors 06-18-2010
As God has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept God’s commandments and abide in God's love.

Verse of the Day: Restoration

by the Web Editors 06-17-2010
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongues of the speechless sing for joy.

Prayer of the Day: Immigrants

by the Web Editors 06-17-2010
Give us open arms, welcoming spirits and gracious attitudes to embrace our immigrant brothers and sisters.

Voice of the Day: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

by the Web Editors 06-17-2010
Prayer is no panacea, no substitute for action. It is, rather, like a beam thrown from a flashlight before us into the darkness.

Voice of the Day: Sojourner Truth

by the Web Editors 06-16-2010
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

- Sojourner Truth
from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Prayer of the Day: Kyrgyzstan

by the Web Editors 06-16-2010
We intercede for the people of Kyrgyzstan, whose lives have been disrupted by the violence there.

Verse of the Day: 'Love one another'

by the Web Editors 06-16-2010
And I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

Verse of the Day: My Soul Hopes

by the Web Editors 06-15-2010
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, [the Lord's] mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Voice of the Day: Pierre-Marie Delfieux

by the Web Editors 06-15-2010
You are God’s field, God’s building. Everything you have and are should be concentrated on discovering this treasure. Truly, the kingdom of heaven is within you.

Prayer of the Day: Gulf of Mexico

by the Web Editors 06-15-2010
God, we pray for the ongoing clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico, that your grace and peace would be on those involved.

Verse of the Day: Perfecter of Our Faith

by the Web Editors 06-14-2010
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set bef

Prayer of the Day: Afghanistan

by the Web Editors 06-14-2010
With the news that the conflict in Afghanistan has become America's longest war, we cry to you for peace. We ask for a cessation of conflict. We ask for reconciliation of relationship.

Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa

by the Web Editors 06-14-2010
Reconciliation begins not first with others but with ourselves: by allowing Jesus to clean us -- to forgive us, to love us.

- Mother Teresa

Prayer of the Day: Neighbors

by the Web Editors 06-10-2010
God of grace, help us to love you and to love our neighbors more fully.

Voice of the Day: Barbara Deming

by the Web Editors 06-10-2010
It is my stubborn faith that if ...

Verse of the Day: Faith and Speech

by the Web Editors 06-10-2010
But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture -- “I believed, and so I spoke” -- we also believe, and so we speak.

Voice of the Day: Cornel West

by the Web Editors 06-09-2010
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely -- to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can g

Prayer of the Day: Be Thou My Vision

by the Web Editors 06-09-2010
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; naught be all else to me, save that thou art. Thou my best thought by day or by night; waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.