It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

Tony Campolo and I both speak a lot, and we began to notice that there were some crowds of old folks that desperately needed some youthful energy, and there were other crowds of young folks that desperately needed some aged wisdom.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.