I am convinced most Americans - yes even white Americans - are committed to justice and equality for all people. I am convinced that most Americans are disgusted and even ashamed that Nazism is alive and well in this country that fought to defeat its evil ideology.

Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

Truth should never travel faster than love.

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.

The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.