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.

The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we can learn from the early church. I think it is a really exciting time where Phyllis Tickle said every few hundred years the church needs a rummage sale where we can get rid of some of the clutter.

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

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 church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.