I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.

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

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.

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.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.