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This is group for those of us on the left side of the church and in our right minds. A place where Christians can come together to prayerfully support social justice, progressive values, and a politics of compassion. A place where progressive Democratic politics and Christian faith find their intersection at the point of prayer. To join a larger conversation, check out our "bigger sister" website: CrossLeft.org


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CARTOON FOR THE DAY:
Steve Sack, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune



LATE NIGHT JOKE OF THE DAY:
"There's a new book that's coming out about Sarah Palin. And the book contains a copy of the speech she would have given if John McCain had won and she had became vice president. Yeah. The speech is entitled, 'Uh-oh.'" –Conan O'Brien



VOICE OF THE DAY:
Government support in the fight against poverty is crucial. Yet the year [of travel and observation] taught us never to sit back and rely on such commitments. Our politicians, in the final analysis, will follow our lead, not vice versa.
-- Jeffrey Sachs, from his book The End of Poverty



VERSE OF THE DAY:
Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored; renew our days as of old.
-- Lamentations 5:21



PRAYER OF THE DAY:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O God, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.