As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love our neighbor as ourself. We care about dismantling institutional racism. That begins in relationships when you see injustice happen.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.