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Voice of the Day: James H. Cone
04-26-2010
Today ecology is in vogue and many people are talking about our endangered planet. I want to urge us to deepen our conversation by linking the earth's crisis with the crisis in the human family.
Prayer of the Day: Arizona
04-26-2010
God of grace, we pray for our brothers and sisters in Arizona; for those who fear for their livelihoods and their security, and for those who minister to them.
Verse of the Day: 'The earth is the Lord's'
04-26-2010
The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it,
the world, and those who live in it.
- Psalm 24:1
Verse of the Day: 'The earth lies polluted'
04-23-2010
The earth lies polluted
under its inhabitants;
for they have transgressed laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
Prayer of the Day: Immigrants
04-23-2010
Break our hearts, Lord, for the injustice and oppression that occur even within our own countries, particularly against immigrants who come seeking a better life for themselves and their families.
Voice of the Day: William Sloane Coffin
04-23-2010
While the heavens continue to tell the glory of God, the firmament today also proclaims some nefarious human handiwork -- smog, acid rain, an immense hole in the ozone layer.
Prayer of the Day: Earth Day
04-22-2010
This Earth Day, we pray that we would be better stewards of the creation you have entrusted to us.
Voice of the Day: Dorothy Height
04-22-2010
I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom ... I want to be remembered as one who tried.
Verse of the Day: Belief in God's Goodness
04-22-2010
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Prayer of the Day: Confidence
04-21-2010
Jesus, you sent your Spirit to us, the same Spirit that raised you from the dead and through whom you did all your miracles.
Verse of the Day: Encourage Love
04-21-2010
Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds.
- Hebrews 10:24
Voice of the Day: John Berryman
04-21-2010
Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake ...
endower of Earth so gorgeous & different from the boring Moon,
thank you for such as it is my gift ...
Prayer of the Day: China
04-20-2010
God, we continue to lift up the Qinghai province of China, where the death toll from last week's earthquake has risen to 2,000. We continue to mourn for those lives that have been lost.
Voice of the Day: Rev. Willie Barrow
04-20-2010
If you really want to be powerful, if you really want to be influential, then just serve.
Verse of the Day: Enough Is Enough
04-20-2010
Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that I need,
or I shall be full, and deny you,
Prayer of the Day: Thailand
04-19-2010
God, we remember Thailand, where civil unrest continues to hold sway. May your justice be done in that place, so that not only will there be peace in the region, but that it would be a just peace.
Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton
04-19-2010
If I affirm myself as a Catholic merely by denying all that is Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, etc., in the end I will find that there is not much left for me to affirm as a Catholic:
Verse of the Day: 'Your light shall rise in the darkness'
04-19-2010
If you remove the yoke from among you,
the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,
if you offer your food to the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,
if you offer your food to the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
Verse of the Day: 'I am the Lord'
04-16-2010
I am the Lord, that is my name;
my glory I give to no other,
nor my praise to idols.
See, the former things have come to pass,
and new things I now declare;
Voice of the Day: Nelson Mandela
04-16-2010
My hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.