Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

To be nonpartisan doesn't mean we're nonpolitical.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.