the Web Editors

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Verse of the Day: 'Slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love'

by the Web Editors 07-09-2009

The Lord is gracious and merciful,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

The Lord is good to all,

and his compassion is over all that he has made.

Voice of the Day: Joan Baez

by the Web Editors 07-09-2009

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

- Joan Baez,
singer, songwriter, and activist

Verse of the Day: 'Hope that is seen is not hope'

by the Web Editors 07-08-2009

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Voice of the Day: Abraham Lincoln

by the Web Editors 07-08-2009

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

- Abraham Lincoln

Prayer of the Day: Haiti

by the Web Editors 07-08-2009

Holy Spirit, we pray for the people of Haiti. Renew their land, and comfort their afflictions.

Voice of the Day: Muriel Lester

by the Web Editors 07-07-2009

God has made of one blood all nations under heaven.

Prayer of the Day: HIV/AIDS

by the Web Editors 07-07-2009

Jesus, we pray for all of those afflicted with HIV/AIDS. Provide them ARV drugs for their health, and may your church preach the truth regarding this disease.

Verse of the Day: 'Do not rejoice when your enemies fall'

by the Web Editors 07-07-2009

Do not rejoice when your enemies fall,
and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble.

- Proverbs 24:17

Voice of the Day: Hubert Humphrey

by the Web Editors 07-06-2009

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

Prayer of the Day: Education for Females

by the Web Editors 07-06-2009

Open up paths for girls worldwide to pursue education, God of Truth. We pray for those who educate women, and for girls to have adequate school supplies.

Verse of the Day: 'Increase our faith'

by the Web Editors 07-06-2009

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in

Voice of the Day: Sharon Welch

by the Web Editors 07-03-2009

Resistance to oppression is often based on a love that leads us to value ourselves, and leads us to hope for more than the established cultural system is willing to grant ...

Voice of the Day: Cesar Chavez

by the Web Editors 07-02-2009

Every time we sit at a table ...

Verse of the Day: 'Our daily bread'

by the Web Editors 07-02-2009

Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

- Matthew 6:11-12

Prayer of the Day: Tajikistan

by the Web Editors 07-02-2009

God of all cultures, we pray for the people of Tajikistan. May their land be a blessing for everyone living on it, and not just for a few powerful rulers.

Voice of the Day: Dorothy Day

by the Web Editors 07-01-2009

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

Prayer of the Day: The Elderly

by the Web Editors 07-01-2009

Loving Parent, we pray for the elderly among us who are vulnerable to abandonment and exploitation.

Verse of the Day: 'A woman came to him with an alabaster jar'

by the Web Editors 07-01-2009

Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

Verse of the Day: 'You must not distort justice'

by the Web Editors 06-30-2009

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Prayer of the Day: WIC Nutrition Program

by the Web Editors 06-30-2009

Provide bread for all those who hunger, Our Bread of Life. May the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program (WIC) be strongly funded so that it may supply food for empty bellies.