We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.

The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.

Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

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.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

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