Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who, through their lifestyle, were challenging the patterns of materialism and militarism and it affected the Christianity of their age.

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.