MAY DAY / LABOR DAY VERSE AND VOICE FROM SOJOURNERS 1MAI26

 

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 So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all and especially for those of the family of faith. - Galatians 6:10 Voice of the day Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are. - Hasfat Abiola Prayer of the day You who labor in love, surround the conditions of your workers with protection and inspire us to do the same. Advertisement Our Latest Stories The Catholic and Quaker Walking 90 Miles in the Name of Kindness (by Emma Maple, FāVS News) Inspired by Buddhist monks’ walk for peace, two best friends are traveling across Washington state. Read more The Devil Is Real. He Lives in Betting Apps (by Colin Martinez Longmore) Lately, I’ve been thinking that the story of Jesus in the wilderness is about testing your luck. Read more From Artemis II to Cinema, Why Are We Drawn to Space Stories? (by Zachary Lee) ‘Project Hail Mary,’ ‘Prometheus,’ and four other films that bring the “Overview Effect” down to Earth. Read more My Father Has Dementia. A Church Became Our Refuge (by Courtney E. Martin) The need for a public awakening around dementia and Alzheimer’s is only going to get bigger. Read more Advertisements Legacy finds common ground in African wisdom traditions Legacy: Wisdom of African Traditions and the Bible compares almost 300 African proverbs with Bible verses. Discover: African expressions of the golden rule, African versions of loving one’s enemies and welcoming the stranger, and much more! Finding common ground has never been more urgent. African idea of sankofa—“go back and get it”—tells us that we can go forward by looking to the past. Unfiltered conversation about faith: God Talk with Medene & James When millions of us are disaffected from the faith we grew up with, God Talk provides honest, unassuming dialogue. Public theology in the service of fellowship, social justice, and self-actualization. Medene - a Black Catholic with Pentecostal roots, James - a gay Catholic from the farm. Join the conversation! Let's talk. Donate Subscribe Copyright © 2026 Sojourners. All rights reserved. Email: sojourners@sojo.net | Tel.: 202.328.8842

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THIS is true for all workers and for the American electorate working to elect VP Kamala Harris for President and Gov Tim Walz for Vice President on Tuesday, 5 November 2024. VOTE HARRIS-WALZ!!!

August 30, 2024 Summer's end is upon us, and I am once again, as I have every year since young adolescence, reeling. The New York Times calls this particular anxiety the "September Scaries." For me, it's always been something of an acute melancholy, a pang of sadness that packs in so much of the existential: transition, the inexorable march of time, anguish over what never got accomplished.  So today, on this very sleepy Friday before Labor Day, I'm wondering how we can ease into fall, a time of cold responsibility and that awful feeling that you've got to get your shambled life in control—or else. A big part of the solution feels like it rests on our labor. You know, making it so that your job doesn't have you in a chokehold day in and out. Here at Mother Jones, where our bread and butter is the labor beat, we've got a slew of reporting and terrific essays on this very issue: improving working conditions; the power of unions; the politics of a true workers' party; making work suck just a tiny bit less. Not so that every day feels like a vacation, but so that the daily lives of Americans, where so many of us feel the pressures of the grind while never feeling like we're doing enough, can just be lighter. —Inae Oh

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Can American Labor Seize the Moment? Unions are popular but facing decades of decline. We asked photographers to document this unique moment for the American worker. BY HAMILTON NOLAN

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How Stokely Carmichael inspired the creation of C-SPAN A Black Power radical, a Navy veteran, and the story behind the most boring channel on television. BY EAMON WHALEN

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VERSE AND VOICE FOR LABOR DAY 30AUG24

Verse of the day “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.” - Exodus 20:8-10 Voice of the day See slowing down as something that is not frivolous, luxury, or privilege, but really your divine human right. - Tricia Hersey, “On Deprogramming Grind Culture” Prayer of the day God, we repent of our fast-paced culture that makes it difficult for us to remember that you have created us to need times of rest and slowness. Help us to remember to encourage each other to rest.