And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so that began in the genesis of humanity, when God commanded the earliest human inhabitants of the Garden of Eden, "to till it and keep it". To "keep" it; not to abuse it, not to make as much money as possible from it, not to destroy it.