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

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

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

Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.

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.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

The kingdom of God, which Jesus came to inaugurate, is meant to create an alternate reality in this world, and ultimately to transform the kingdoms of this world.