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.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.

If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.