There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.