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

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.