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.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice

I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.