Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain, that it is not Edward Albee or Camus's absurd, the theater of the absurd, it is not Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - that life has meaning and that God is still in control, and that God can, and God will, so people of goodwill, working hard, do something about the situation? We can change.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.

I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.