VERSE AND VOICE FROM SOJOURNERS 1JAN26

 

Forward this email to someone you know who would like it! Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Verse of the day For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. - Ecclesiastes 3:1 Voice of the day No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others. - Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” (1934) Prayer of the day God of change, as we embark on this fresh start in a new year, invite every person to consider the intentionality of every moment you place before us. Advertisement Our Latest Stories Anti-ICE Nativities Are the Reason for the Season (by Emma Cieslik) The churches putting up these nativities are declaring that they refuse to be complicit in the very same violence that threatened Jesus at his birth. Read more Bethlehem Is Still a Reminder of Joy Amid Grief (by Elom Tettey-Tamaklo) For two years, the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem canceled its traditional Christmas celebration. This year, the festivities resume. Read more DHS Bars Norma Pimentel’s Charity From Federal Funding (by Ken Chitwood) The department appeared to cite Catholic Social Teaching while alleging that Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley mismanaged funds in its service of noncitizen immigrants. Read more Advertisements Help Doctors Without Borders Save Lives As humanitarian crises intensify and emergencies compound, our patients need us now more than ever. When you make a donation to Doctors Without Borders, you will help us continue providing urgently needed medical care in places like Gaza, Sudan, and around the world. Doctors Without Borders Needs You Now More Than Ever Doctors Without Borders is on the ground providing medical care, delivering aid, and saving lives in over 75 countries worldwide. We can’t do this work without your support. Now more than ever, we need you. Donate Subscribe

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VERSE AND VOICE FROM SOJOURNERS 30DEZ25

Forward this email to someone you know who would like it! Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Verse of the day Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing. - Malachi 3:10 Voice of the day Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet too, even with a crust, where there is companionship. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. - Dorothy Day Prayer of the day God, through the joy of good works done in good company, fill us with purpose and hope every time we gather at your table. Advertisement Our Latest Stories Anti-ICE Nativities Are the Reason for the Season (by Emma Cieslik) The churches putting up these nativities are declaring that they refuse to be complicit in the very same violence that threatened Jesus at his birth. Read more Bethlehem Is Still a Reminder of Joy Amid Grief (by Elom Tettey-Tamaklo) For two years, the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem canceled its traditional Christmas celebration. This year, the festivities resume. Read more DHS Bars Norma Pimentel’s Charity From Federal Funding (by Ken Chitwood) The department appeared to cite Catholic Social Teaching while alleging that Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley mismanaged funds in its service of noncitizen immigrants. Read more Advertisements Help Doctors Without Borders Save Lives As humanitarian crises intensify and emergencies compound, our patients need us now more than ever. When you make a donation to Doctors Without Borders, you will help us continue providing urgently needed medical care in places like Gaza, Sudan, and around the world. Doctors Without Borders Needs You Now More Than Ever Doctors Without Borders is on the ground providing medical care, delivering aid, and saving lives in over 75 countries worldwide. We can’t do this work without your support. Now more than ever, we need you. Donate Subscribe Copyright © 2025 Sojourners. All rights reserved. Email: sojourners@sojo.net | Tel.: 202.328.8842

 

VERSE AND VOICE FROM SOJOURNERS 19DEZ25

 

Forward this email to someone you know who would like it! Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Verse of the day I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. - Philippians 4:12 Voice of the day We, the ordinary people of the streets, believe with all our might that this street, this world, where God has placed us, is our place of holiness. - Madeleine Debrêl Prayer of the day No matter what situations arise or problems we yearn to counter, may we be grounded in your presence. Advertisement Our Latest Stories ‘Train Dreams’ Walks with Job Through Grief and Grace (by Georgia Coley) “We have these things that happen in our lives that completely upend our lives, and it’s hard to find a reason or rationality in them,” director Clint Bentley told Sojourners. Read more Want to Love Your Neighbor? Grieve With Them (by Elom Tettey-Tamaklo) Who we choose to grieve amidst great moral cacophony indicates who we consider to be human. We must tell their stories, sing their songs, and struggle with them to realize a more just future. Read more In ‘Rental Family,’ Brendan Fraser Loves His Neighbor by Lying to Them (by Jenna Barnett) Fraser portrays an American actor living in Tokyo who is hired to play pretend roles in the lives of real people. Read more ‘Lord of the Rings’ Doesn’t Mean What MAGA Thinks It Does (by Ethan Meyers) Advent reminds us that in life, like in Middle-Earth, the most powerful people are not necessarily the most heroic. Read more Advertisements Help Doctors Without Borders Save Lives As humanitarian crises intensify and emergencies compound, our patients need us now more than ever. When you make a donation to Doctors Without Borders, you will help us continue providing urgently needed medical care in places like Gaza, Sudan, and around the world. Doctors Without Borders Needs You Now More Than Ever Doctors Without Borders is on the ground providing medical care, delivering aid, and saving lives in over 75 countries worldwide.We can’t do this work without your support. Now more than ever, we need you. Donate Subscribe Unsubscribe or update email preferences Copyright © 2025 Sojourners. All rights reserved. Email: sojourners@sojo.net | Tel.: 202.328.8842

VERSE AND VOICE FROM SOJOURNERS AND ESPECIALLY APPROPRIATE FOR THESE TIMES 18DEZ25

 

Forward this email to someone you know who would like it! Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Verse of the day Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you; they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on in a manner worthy of God. - 3 John 1:5-6 Voice of the day I have heard it said we are the uninvited. We are the unwelcome. We should take our misfortune elsewhere. But I hear your mother's voice, over the tide, and she whispers in my ear, “Oh, but if they say, my darling. Even half of what you have. If only they saw. They would say kinder things, surely.” - Khaled Hosseini, “Sea Prayer” (2018) Prayer of the day God, open our hearts to our brethren that long for refuge and let them experience a spirit of welcome rather than disdain. Advertisement Our Latest Stories Want to Love Your Neighbor? Grieve With Them (by Elom Tettey-Tamaklo) Who we choose to grieve amidst great moral cacophony indicates who we consider to be human. Read more In ‘Rental Family,’ Brendan Fraser Loves His Neighbor by Lying to Them (by Jenna Barnett) Fraser portrays an American actor living in Tokyo who’s hired to play roles in the lives of real people. Read more ‘Lord of the Rings’ Doesn’t Mean What MAGA Thinks It Does (by Ethan Meyers) Advent reminds us that in life, like in Middle-Earth, the most powerful people are not necessarily the most heroic. Read more I Came to the U.S. a Capitalist, Now I Support Mamdani (by Yanan Rahim Navarez Melo) “I found myself trapped within the depths of this American religio-capitalist system, digging myself further into its abyss.” Read more Advertisements Help Doctors Without Borders Save Lives As humanitarian crises intensify and emergencies compound, our patients need us now more than ever. When you make a donation to Doctors Without Borders, you will help us continue providing urgently needed medical care in places like Gaza, Sudan, and around the world. Doctors Without Borders Needs You Now More Than Ever Doctors Without Borders is on the ground providing medical care, delivering aid, and saving lives in over 75 countries worldwide.We can’t do this work without your support. Now more than ever, we need you. Donate Subscribe Copyright © 2025 Sojourners. All rights reserved. Email: sojourners@sojo.net | Tel.: 202.328.8842

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Forward this email to someone you know who would like it! Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Verse of the day Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. - Colossians 3:16 Voice of the day Brother, we’re here to become human again. To put on nice clothes and dance around. And enjoy the things that is not in our reality. - Sean “Dino” Johnson, “Sing Sing” (2023) Prayer of the day As we gather in your name, let us be true reflections of your love and honor the things that bring meaning to our lives. Advertisement Our Latest Stories In ‘Rental Family,’ Brendan Fraser Loves His Neighbor by Lying to Them (by Jenna Barnett) Fraser portrays an American actor living in Tokyo who’s hired to play immersive roles in the lives of real people. Read more ‘Lord of the Rings’ Doesn’t Mean What MAGA Thinks It Does (by Ethan Meyers) Advent reminds us that in life, like in Middle-Earth, the most powerful people are not necessarily the most heroic. Read more I Came to the U.S. a Capitalist, Now I Support Mamdani (by Yanan Rahim Navarez Melo) “I found myself trapped within the depths of this American religio-capitalist system, digging myself further into its abyss.” Read more Faith Leaders Share Why They Joined Zohran Mamdani’s Transition Team (by Erwin Kamuene) Mamdani asked at least 18 faith and religious leaders from a range of traditions to serve his transition. Read more Advertisements Help Doctors Without Borders Save Lives As humanitarian crises intensify and emergencies compound, our patients need us now more than ever. When you make a donation to Doctors Without Borders, you will help us continue providing urgently needed medical care in places like Gaza, Sudan, and around the world. Doctors Without Borders Needs You Now More Than Ever Doctors Without Borders is on the ground providing medical care, delivering aid, and saving lives in over 75 countries worldwide.We can’t do this work without your support. Now more than ever, we need you. Donate Subscribe Copyright © 2025 Sojourners. All rights reserved. Email: sojourners@sojo.net | Tel.: 202.328.8842