Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that.