Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.

When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love our neighbor as ourself. We care about dismantling institutional racism. That begins in relationships when you see injustice happen.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.