A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they want to write us off as superhuman and create a safe distance. One of my favorite quotes, written on my wall here in bold black marker, is from Dorothy Day: "Don't call us saints; we don't want to be dismissed that easily

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but eventually caught some other disease. He fed the ten thousands, and the next day they were hungry again. But we remember his love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.