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.

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

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.

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.

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.

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.