We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.

I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to college and fell in love with this city, and particularly, my neighborhood on the north side of Philadelphia.

When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.