To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

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

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.