Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

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

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.