It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.

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

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught 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

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

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