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

I found that the death penalty  -  and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person  -  but what I think drew me to the death penalty is because it raises some very deep, fundamental questions like: Is anybody beyond redemption?

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.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

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.