Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

You just have to do what you know is right.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.