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

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

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

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.

We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.

Governments can do lots of things, but there are a lot of things they cannot do. A government can provide good housing, but folks can have a house without having a home. We can keep people breathing with good health care, but they still may not really be alive.