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Voice of the Day: G.K. Chesterton
02-22-2013
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. - G.K. Chesterton + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail
Verse of the Day: 'Judge Rightly'
02-22-2013
I charged your judges at that time: ‘Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien.'
- Deuteronomy 1:16
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Prayer of the Day: Faith
02-22-2013
Lord God, extend our faith so that even when we fail to see the fruit of our planted seeds, we may have the assurance that every inch of soil overturned will lead to a harvest some day. Amen.
From Common Prayer
Verse of the Day: Reconciliation
02-21-2013
For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.
- Ephesians 2:14-18
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Voice of the Day: Henri Nouwen
02-21-2013
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Prayer of the Day: Help Us to Live
02-21-2013
We struggle this day to understand how in a world of plenty there are some who have so much why others have so little. Help us, O God, to ensure that everyone in our world has enough. Help us to learn ways to lift others up, to provide dignity, and respect to those for whom those are in short supply. Forgive those to whom much has been given, and yet far too little is shared. Help us, O God, to live as you have called us to live. Amen.
Voice of the Day: St. Basil of Caesarea
02-20-2013
I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness towards all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.
- St. Basil
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Verse of the Day: 'If You Truly Amend Your Ways'
02-20-2013
For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors for ever and ever.
- Jeremiah 7:5-7
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Prayer of the Day: Give us Grace
02-20-2013
God of Conscience, God of Courage, give us whatever grace we need to work for the coming of the reign of God now, here, and always. Amen.
- A prayer by Joan Chittister
A Year to Change Your Life
02-19-2013
Applications for next year's Intern Program are due March 1. Photo by Brandon Hook / Sojourners
While the new year is just beginning for most, our intern year at Sojourners is halfway up.
Applications for next year's program are due March 1st, and if you or anyone you know is on the bubble in regard to applying, here are a few thoughts from this year's interns as to why you should apply.
Prayer of the Day: Difference and Discrimination
02-19-2013
Lord, keep us from fearfully persecuting the innocent among us. When we are tempted to use the cultural differences of our neighbors as excuses for injustice, convict us of our error. Keep us from turning difference into discrimination. Amen.
- From Common Prayer
Voice of the Day: Brigid of Ireland
02-19-2013
I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us. I would like an abundance of peace. I would like full vessels of charity. I would like rich treasures of mercy. I would like cheerfulness to preside over all. I would like Jesus to be present.
- Brigid of Ireland
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Verse of the Day: 'You Were Aliens'
02-19-2013
You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 22:21
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Verse of the Day: 'Championed the Cause of the Stranger'
02-18-2013
I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.
- Job 29:16
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Voice of the Day: Francis Bacon
02-18-2013
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
- Francis Bacon
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Prayer of the Day: Meditation Prayer
02-18-2013
My God and my All! Amen.
- St. Francis' meditation prayer
Keystone Pipeline Will Be Stopped By A Miracle
02-18-2013
Sojourners and Young Evangelicals for Climate Action at the Forward on Climate Rally. Sojourners photo.
People of faith are in the 'miracle business.'
An estimated 200 people of faith gathered in Washington, D.C., on Sunday morning in preparation for the Forward on Climate Rally on the National Mall. The brief prayer service preceded the larger rally of an estimated 40,000 people urging President Barack Obama to take action against climate change and to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
Prayer of the Day: Reconciliation
02-15-2013
Lord, reconcile us to you anew each day so that we might know what a fearful and wonderful thing it is to be reconciled to one another. Amen.
-From Common Prayer
Voice of the Day: Plato
02-15-2013
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
- Plato
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Verse of the Day: 'As the Citizen Among You'
02-15-2013
When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 19:33-34
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