When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

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

There's something beautiful about that Scripture that says, "Your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). We need each other. There is power when the old and young dream together.

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.

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.

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

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.