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Voice of the Day: Rebecca Sweeney

by the Web Editors 05-06-2010
When I was in high school I thought a vocation was a particular calling. Here's a voice: "Come, follow me." My idea of a calling now is not: "Come." It's ...

Prayer of the Day: Great Britain

by the Web Editors 05-06-2010
To mark general elections in the United Kingdom, we pray that your people would be engaged in their political processes. May they use their voices and votes wisely and with discernment.

Prayer of the Day: Cinco de Mayo

by the Web Editors 05-05-2010
Today, we pray not only for our brothers and sisters in Arizona, but also for immigrants everywhere, whether they are struggling to integrate into new countries, or frustrated by long waits for leg

Verse of the Day: Bring Justice

by the Web Editors 05-05-2010
Give justice to the weak and the orphan;

maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.

Rescue the weak and the needy;

deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Voice of the Day: Dr. Vincent Harding

by the Web Editors 05-05-2010
[The] African-American epic is your story, the particular and universal story of captivity and struggle, of enslavement and deliverance, the account of long wandering and searching for clouds and f

Prayer of the Day: Tennessee

by the Web Editors 05-04-2010
We pray for our brothers and sisters, friends and family, in the midst of these Tennessee storms and floods. Lord, have mercy.

Voice of the Day: Simone Weil

by the Web Editors 05-04-2010
The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

- Simone Weil
French philosopher and social activist

Verse of the Day: 'Seek good'

by the Web Editors 05-04-2010
Seek good and not evil, that you may live;

and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,

just as you have said.

- Amos 5:14

Voice of the Day: Samir Selmanovic

by the Web Editors 05-03-2010
Our Scriptures have spoken to us, and our lives ought to speak back.

Verse of the Day: 'In the beginning was the Word'

by the Web Editors 05-03-2010
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.

Prayer of the Day: Gulf of Mexico

by the Web Editors 05-03-2010
Creator God, we pray for the ongoing ecological devastation in the Gulf of Mexico.

Verse of the Day: God Who Rescues and Fills

by the Web Editors 04-30-2010
I am the Lord your God,

who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

- Psalm 81:10

Prayer of the Day: Reform of the Financial System

by the Web Editors 04-30-2010
In our ever-interconnected world, Lord, we pray for discernment to see where injustice and oppression are lurking, for boldness to call them out, and for perseverance to stand against them.

Voice of the Day: Barbara Brown Taylor

by the Web Editors 04-30-2010
If I had to name my disability, I would call it an unwillingness to fall ...

Verse of the Day: Discipline Yields Righteousness

by the Web Editors 04-28-2010
Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Prayer of the Day: Workers' Memorial Day

by the Web Editors 04-28-2010
This Workers' Memorial Day, we remember especially those who lost their lives in the mine accident in West Virginia, and we ask for your grace and peace to be with their families and loved ones.

Voice of the Day: Dorothy Day

by the Web Editors 04-28-2010
We need always to be thinking and writing about [poverty], for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us.

Prayer of the Day: Freedom Day

by the Web Editors 04-27-2010
On the anniversary of South Africa's first post-apartheid elections (1994), we celebrate and thank you for that act of justice.

Verse of the Day: 'The voice of the Lord'

by the Web Editors 04-27-2010
The voice of the Lord causes the oaks to whirl,

and strips the forest bare;

and all in God's temple say, "Glory!"

- Psalm 29:9

Voice of the Day: E.B. White

by the Web Editors 04-27-2010
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem.