We should refuse to get sucked into political camps and insist on pulling the best out of all of them. That's what Jesus did - challenge the worst of each camp and pull out the best of each.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

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