There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.