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Voice of the Day: Emma Goldman

by the Web Editors 05-18-2010
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

- Emma Goldman
American writer and lecturer

Prayer of the Day: Thailand

by the Web Editors 05-17-2010
Prince of Peace, we continue to lift up the country of Thailand, where civil unrest and violence continue to rend this nation apart and divide friends and families.

Voice of the Day: John Wesley

by the Web Editors 05-17-2010
Have I rejoiced with and for my neighbor in virtue or pleasure? grieved with [her] in pain, for him in sin? ...

Verse of the Day: Christ the Shepherd

by the Web Editors 05-17-2010
[Christ] himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

Voice of the Day: Edward Gilbreath

by the Web Editors 05-13-2010
Whether it's the sin of racism, greed, pride, or indifference, doing what comes naturally is what always gets us in trouble.

Prayer of the Day: For the Poor

by the Web Editors 05-13-2010
Help us, God, to bring--to be, to live out, to show through our love--your good news to the poor. Amen.

Verse of the Day: 'I do not what I want'

by the Web Editors 05-13-2010
I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

- Romans 7:15

Verse of the Day: Freedom in Truth

by the Web Editors 05-12-2010
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

Prayer of the Day: Immigrants

by the Web Editors 05-12-2010
Lord Jesus, help us to recognize you in the face of the stranger and welcome your presence among us. You have graced us with the gifts of many cultures and nations.

Voice of the Day: Anna Akhmatova

by the Web Editors 05-12-2010
Wild honey smells of freedom

The dust -- of sunlight

The mouth of a young girl,

like a violet

But gold -- smells of nothing.

Voice of the Day: C.S. Lewis

by the Web Editors 05-11-2010
Our imitation of God in this life ...

Prayer of the Day: Generosity

by the Web Editors 05-11-2010
God, we come before you with gratitude, remembering all that you have done for us and through us.

Verse of the Day: 'A way in the wilderness'

by the Web Editors 05-11-2010
I am about to do a new thing;

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert.

Voice of the Day: Dorothy Height

by the Web Editors 05-10-2010
Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

Verse of the Day: Jesus Calls Sinners

by the Web Editors 05-10-2010
The Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" Jesus answered, "Those who are well have no nee

Prayer of the Day: Gulf of Mexico

by the Web Editors 05-10-2010
We continue to pray for the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico. We pray for swift and effective containment and clean-up.

Prayer of the Day: Courage to be revolutionary

by the Web Editors 05-07-2010
God, give me the courage to be revolutionary as your Son Jesus Christ was. Give me the courage to loosen myself from this world. Teach me to stand up free and to shun no criticism.

Verse of the Day: Lord of the Heavens and the Earth

by the Web Editors 05-07-2010
And Ezra said: "You are the Lord, you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them.

Voice of the Day: Swami Sivananda

by the Web Editors 05-07-2010
Work is the worship of the Lord. Do not make any distinction between menial and respectable work.

Verse of the Day: The Knowledge of God

by the Web Editors 05-06-2010
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are [God's] judgments and how inscrutable [God's] ways!

- Romans 11:33