Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.

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.

We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know  -  what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that crime. That's how a lot of the criminal justice works. But God's justice is restorative, so it's not as interested in those same questions of "What did they do wrong?" and "What is the punishment for that?" It's more about what harm was done and how do we heal that harm, and that's a much more redemptive version. So, it definitely doesn't turn a blind eye to harm, but it does say we want to heal the wounds of that.