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Voice of the Day: St. Francis of Assisi
07-13-2011
"[The Creator] gives you the mountains and the valleys for your refuge, and the tall trees wherein to build your nests, and as you can neither spin nor sew God clothes you, you and your children.
Prayer of the Day: For Faith Leaders
07-13-2011
Loving God, we pray for the leaders of denominations and churches. May we support them in love and truth as they advocate for the least of these among us. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Sara Miles
07-12-2011
"My only sense of 'mission' now was to show others that they, too, could feed and touch and heal and love, without fear.
Verse of the Day: Hope, Patience, Prayer
07-12-2011
"Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer."
- Romans 12:12
Prayer of the Day: Common Ground
07-12-2011
God, soften our hearts so we are moved to develop relationships with those who see things differently than the way we do: in politics, in faith, in culture.
Verse of the Day: 'share your bread'
07-11-2011
"Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your ow
Voice of the Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson
07-11-2011
"There is a crack in everything God has made."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer of the Day: Kingdom Come
07-11-2011
God of the rich and poor, God of the high and lowly, God of all people, we pray today that you would stir in our hearts the desire to see your kingdom come in the relationships between us.
Prayer of the Day: Call to Justice
07-08-2011
Impress upon us again, Lord, the call to do justice, the call to practice reconciliation, the call to seek shalom.
Voice of the Day: Ambrose of Milan
07-08-2011
"You are human, and temptation has overtaken you. Overcome it. I counsel, I beseech, I implore you to repentance."
- Ambrose of Milan
Verse of the Day: Live by Christ
07-08-2011
"If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world?"
- Colossians 2:20
Voice of the Day: James W. Jones
07-07-2011
"Teach me, God, to pray / in works as much as in words / to make my actions thoughtful messages / to make my actions more beautiful than words."
Verse of the Day: 'stop before the quarrel breaks out'
07-07-2011
"The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so stop before the quarrel breaks out."
- Proverbs 17:14
Prayer of the Day: All Things are Possible
07-07-2011
May we be reminded that while we are limited in our capacity and our finitude, in you all things are possible.
Verse of the Day: Land is the Lord's
07-06-2011
"The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants."
- Leviticus 25:23
Prayer of the Day: Afghanistan and Pakistan
07-06-2011
We continue to pray for peace over the region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Voice of the Day: St. Gregory of Nyssa
07-06-2011
"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees."
- St. Gregory of Nyssa
Prayer of the Day: For those who move
07-05-2011
We ask for people today who move--whether for work, for family, for a better life, or even those dsiplaced--that your faithfulness will again show forth, and that they will know your abounding grac
Voice of the Day: Joan Chittister
07-05-2011
"To allow ourselves to become digital chips in an electronic world, isolates in an interdependent universe, women and men out of touch with the life pulse of a living God, indifferent to creat
Verse of the Day: 'No one can serve two masters'
07-05-2011
"No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."