the Web Editors

The online editorial staff comprises Betsy Shirley, Jenna Barnett, Josiah R. Daniels, Mitchell Atencio, Heather Brady, Tyler Huckabee.

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Prayer of the Day: The Discipline of Rest

by the Web Editors 01-30-2013

Lord, may we remember to rest. Allow us to sleep peacefully so our energy may be restored. Rejuvenate our spirit so we may love you and each other to our fullest. Amen.

Senate Confirms Kerry

by the Web Editors 01-29-2013

The Associated Press reports that the Senate has confirmed John Kerry as Secretary of State with a 94-3 vote. Earlier today, the Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the nomination. Kerry, a Vietnam veteran and five-term Senator, replaces Hillary Clinton as Secretary.

Verse of the Day: The Sabbath

by the Web Editors 01-29-2013

Then he said to them, ‘The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath.' - Mark 2:27 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Prayer of the Day: Doubt

by the Web Editors 01-29-2013

How merciful are you, O Lord, when you receive us even with our doubts and suspicions. We pray to keep tiptoeing toward you without fear of rejection. We pray to keep up our feeble attempts at serving you even when we question the worth of our efforts. Amen. -From Common Prayer

Voice of the Day: Anne Frank

by the Web Editors 01-29-2013

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Frank Anne + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Verse of the Day: You Shall Be Alike

by the Web Editors 01-28-2013

As for the assembly, there shall be for both you and the resident alien a single statute, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you and the alien shall be alike before the Lord. You and the alien who resides with you shall have the same law and the same ordinance. - Numbers 15:15-16 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Voice of the Day: Gandhi

by the Web Editors 01-28-2013

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. - Mahatma Gandhi + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Prayer of the Day: Technology

by the Web Editors 01-28-2013

Lord, I am so often overtaken by machines, trapped by technology. Help me to find my life again, enhanced and not eroded by these technical aids. Help me to take control, at least in my heart, and put them in their place. Help me, Lord, to rejoice at the machines, and to be hopeful about the future benefits they can bring. May technology serve us Lord, so that we may better serve one another, and you. Amen Adapted from a prayer on aftersunday.org.uk

Voice of the Day: Bono

by the Web Editors 01-25-2013

Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff. - Bono + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Prayer of the Day: 'Make it Our Instinct'

by the Web Editors 01-25-2013

Lord, when one of us hungers, make it our instinct to feed. When one of us is displaced, make it our instinct to share our home. When one of us is called illegal, make it our instinct to advocate for our sister's rights. May we find our peace in the peace of the places to which you have called us. Amen.

Verse of the Day: 'Do Not Oppress the Alien'

by the Web Editors 01-25-2013

Do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another. - Zechariah 7:10 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Verse of the Day: Entertained Angels

by the Web Editors 01-24-2013

Prayer of the Day: Sick

by the Web Editors 01-24-2013

Voice of the Day: Mark L. Taylor

by the Web Editors 01-24-2013

Verse of the Day: 'Go and Do Likewise'

by the Web Editors 01-23-2013

Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?’ He said, ‘The one who showed him mercy.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go and do likewise.’ - Luke 10:36-37 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Voice of the Day: John Muir

by the Web Editors 01-23-2013

When you try to select any one thing out, you find it is hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Prayer of the Day: Fear of the Other

by the Web Editors 01-23-2013

Lord, we recognize that too often fear of those who are different from us drives our actions and thoughts. Help us to love our neighbors and seek to understand them instead of dehumanizing them. Amen.

Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton

by the Web Editors 01-22-2013

We are already one. We just think we are separate. - Thomas Merton + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Verse of the Day: The Image of God

by the Web Editors 01-22-2013

So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’ - Genesis 1:27-28 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Prayer of the Day: Reconciliation

by the Web Editors 01-22-2013

Dear God, sometimes it is as though all we see around us is a world stricken with conflict. However, your gospel preaches reconciliation to this hurting world. May we be vessels of this reconciliation today as we pursue love in our own relationships.