Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.

There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

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

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

We should refuse to get sucked into political camps and insist on pulling the best out of all of them. That's what Jesus did - challenge the worst of each camp and pull out the best of each.