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

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

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

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.