There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.

There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, "God hates fags" and all sorts of sick things - and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like.

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

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

That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.