Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

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.

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.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.