Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

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.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.