Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

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.

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

There's something beautiful about that Scripture that says, "Your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). We need each other. There is power when the old and young dream together.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.