I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.

David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.