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Voice of the Day: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

by the Web Editors 03-18-2010
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was both protest and prayer. Legs are not lips, and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.

Prayer of the Day: A prayer of St. Patrick

by the Web Editors 03-17-2010
Permit us not, O Lord, to hear your word in vain.

Voice of the Day: Sarah Miles

by the Web Editors 03-17-2010
Jesus is real, and so, praise God, are we. Every single thing the resurrected Jesus does on earth he does through our bodies. You're fed, you're healed, you're forgiven, you're pronounced clean.

Verse of the Day: Serve One Another

by the Web Editors 03-17-2010
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.

Voice of the Day: Rosa Parks

by the Web Editors 03-16-2010
This movement was not just about desegregating the buses, or even just the mistreatment of our people in Montgomery.

Verse of the Day: 'The way of the righteous is level'

by the Web Editors 03-16-2010
The way of the righteous is level;

O Just One, you make smooth the path of the righteous.

In the path of your judgments,

O Lord, we wait for you;

Prayer of the Day: For justice and peace

by the Web Editors 03-16-2010
O God, open our eyes that we may see the needs of others; open our ears that we may hear their cries; open our hearts that we may feel their anguish and their joy.

Verse of the Day: Unity in God

by the Web Editors 03-15-2010
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and [Creator] of all, who is above all and through all and in al

Prayer of the Day: Thailand

by the Web Editors 03-15-2010
God, we pray for the country of Thailand, and for the civil unrest there. We ask that justice be done and reconciliation be found there.

Voice of the Day: Luigi Giussani

by the Web Editors 03-15-2010
If you are in class, recognize one another; if you are in the store, recognize one another; if you are in the housing estate, recognize one another; if you are in the parish, recognize one another:

Verse of the Day: Loving Foreigners

by the Web Editors 03-12-2010
When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien.

Prayer of the Day: Immigration

by the Web Editors 03-12-2010
Break our hearts for what breaks yours, Lord.

Voice of the Day: James Baldwin

by the Web Editors 03-12-2010
One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself -- that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving.

Prayer of the Day: Israel/Palestine

by the Web Editors 03-11-2010
God, we continue to lift up the situation in Israel/Palestine, asking that you would bring not only peace but reconciliation, not only tolerance but genuine engagement and understanding, not only f

Verse of the Day: Lament of the Weary

by the Web Editors 03-11-2010
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us ...

We have become orphans, fatherless;

our mothers are like widows.

We must pay for the water we drink;

Voice of the Day: Maya Angelou

by the Web Editors 03-11-2010
The fact that people become heroes and sheroes can be credited to their ability to identify and empathize with "the other." These men and women could continue to live quite comfortably ..

Voice of the Day: Parker Palmer

by the Web Editors 03-10-2010
True self, when violated, will always resist us, sometimes at great cost, holding our lives in check until we honor its truth.

Prayer of the Day: Nigeria

by the Web Editors 03-10-2010
In the wake of yet more ethnic violence in Nigeria, we pray to you, Prince of Peace.

Prayer of the Day: Nigeria

by the Web Editors 03-10-2010
In the wake of yet more ethnic violence in Nigeria, we pray to you, Prince of Peace.

Verse of the Day: Breaking Bread Together

by the Web Editors 03-10-2010
Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles.