Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.

There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.

If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.

Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.