{"id":770,"date":"2007-04-18T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/04\/voice-of-day-douglas-v-steere.html"},"modified":"2007-04-18T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T09:10:00","slug":"voice-of-day-douglas-v-steere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/04\/voice-of-day-douglas-v-steere.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice of the Day: Douglas V. Steere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet, for all this lukewarmness, we hunger. And we know well enough the there is a response. There is an answering back to the Grace of God on your part and on mine that is all-important. We know, too, that the redeeming of our time calls for nothing less than the blazing up out of our prostrate bodies of an authentic, original, passionate, interior life in answer to the Living Flame that confronts us.<\/p>\n<p>-Douglas V. 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