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.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.