There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they want to write us off as superhuman and create a safe distance. One of my favorite quotes, written on my wall here in bold black marker, is from Dorothy Day: "Don't call us saints; we don't want to be dismissed that easily

Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.