SOJOURNERS VERSE AND VOICE FOR ELECTION DAY 3NOV20

 

Verse of the day “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’”  - Zechariah 7:9-10 (NIV)

Voice of the day While our democracy will never be perfect, we must continually defend the rights, institutions, and laws that help safeguard our freedoms and advance the common good.  - Adam Russell Taylor

Prayer of the day Almighty God, guide us as a country to guard the rights of one another, to protect the integrity of the election, and to fulfill your purposes for our lives, as we truly strive "to form a more perfect union”; and to together build a more radically just and loving nation.            - From SojoAction's "Prayers for the Election Season"

Our Latest U.S. Judge in Texas Denies Republican Bid to Throw Out 127,000 Votes (by the Web Editors ) "It shouldn't be hard to vote in America in 2020, even with a pandemic." More Than 230 Texas Christian Leaders: Count All the Votes in Harris County (by Lexi McMenamin) “In Texas, equal dignity and worth applies to the voting booth,” the sign-on letter reads. Police Pepper-Spray, Arrest North Carolina Get-Out-the-Vote Rally Attendees (by Raphael Satter, Reuters) The state's Democratic governor described the incident as "unacceptable." Prayers, Please: Ways to Pray for Election Day (by Gina Ciliberto) After you vote, while you wait in line to vote, or while you anxiously tune in as votes are tallied, here are places that you can pray on Election Day.

We Carry the Fire: Family and Citizenship as Spiritual Calling Written by a grassroots organizer and minister, We Carry the Fire offers tangible actions and theology to help families and congregations live out an incarnational spirituality in the twenty-first century. Tell Congress: Families need pandemic relief As Congress is debating the next stimulus and recovery bill, we need you to contact your members of Congress today to make sure that money gets to the families that need it most.