Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours.

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.