What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

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

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

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?