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

We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.

We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.