Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

And every human being is precious.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.