Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.

...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.