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
Voice of the Day: Moses Maimonides
02-24-2009
Hope is belief in the plausibility of the possible, not only the necessity of the probable.
Verse of the Day: 'Their hearts are far from me'
02-23-2009
He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they w
Voice of the Day: Joan Chittister
02-23-2009
Humility is what gives us the vision to look upon our world with fresh eyes.
Verse of the Day: 'Turn from their ways and live'
02-20-2009
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?
Voice of the Day: Saint Basil
02-20-2009
The bread that you possess belongs to the hungry. The clothes that you store in boxes, belong to the naked. The shoes rotting by you, belong to the bare-foot.
Verse of the Day: 'Seek peace, and pursue it'
02-19-2009
Come, O children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Which of you desires life,
and covets many days to enjoy good?
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Which of you desires life,
and covets many days to enjoy good?
Voice of the Day: Anne Frank
02-19-2009
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!
Verse of the Day: 'Hold fast to love and justice'
02-18-2009
But as for you, return to your God,
hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God.
hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God.
Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
02-18-2009
Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe? Expediency asks the question: Is it politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But conscience asks the question: Is it right?
Voice of the Day: Mother Jones
02-17-2009
We must stand together; if we don't, there will be no victory for any one of us.
Verse of the Day: 'They need not go away; you give them something to eat.'
02-17-2009
When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick.
Voice of the Day: Reinhold Neibuhr
02-16-2009
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Verse of the Day: 'Be gracious to me, O Lord'
02-16-2009
Be gracious to me, O Lord.
See what I suffer from those who hate me;
you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,
See what I suffer from those who hate me;
you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,
Verse of the Day: 'The Lord is near to the brokenhearted'
02-13-2009
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears,
and rescues them from all their troubles.
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted,
and rescues them from all their troubles.
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted,
Voice of the Day: Henri Nouwen
02-13-2009
Does the compassionate life not demand that we be present to those who suffer; does it not require that we enter into solidarity with the poor, oppressed, and downtrodden; does
Verse of the Day: 'How often should I forgive?'
02-12-2009
Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive?
Voice of the Day: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
02-12-2009
We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.<
Voice of the Day: Saint Basil
02-11-2009
If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.
Verse of the Day: 'You have despised my holy things'
02-11-2009
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.
Verse of the Day: 'Which commandment is the first of all?'
02-10-2009
One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that [Jesus] answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the first of all?" Jesus