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.

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

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.

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child of God, and then walk with that child a couple of miles. Look into the eys of tax collectors as they sue you in court; see their poverty and give them your coat. Look in to the eys of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love. For God loves good and bad people.

[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.