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

Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want to pick our brains, please do - we've been doing community for about 1,500 years together so we've learned a few things."