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.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.

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

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

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