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

The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we can learn from the early church. I think it is a really exciting time where Phyllis Tickle said every few hundred years the church needs a rummage sale where we can get rid of some of the clutter.

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.

...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

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

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.