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

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

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.

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

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.

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?