FROM THE EDITORS February 13, 2006 ISSUE

LOOSE THEM, AND LET THEM GO

WITH NEW THREATS of terrorist acts coming out of the Middle East at this writing, and with suicide bombings and kidnappings headlining the news, it is imperative that our prayers embrace all those who are placed in harm's way as a result of hatred and violence. As children of God, the citizens of this planet deserve to live their lives unencumbered by fear and by the threat of capture and consequence.

We echo Jesus' words in John's Gospel, when the Nazarene healer ordered bystanders to free the newly walking and breathing Lazarus from the "graveclothes" that had bound him, a man dead for four days: "Loose them," our hearts say, "and let them go."

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