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

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

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

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.