We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

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.

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

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping poor people. People are crucified for joining them.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.