The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

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

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.

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.

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