Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.

Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it is not just how many units of housing we create or how good our health care system is, it is that people have someone to eat dinner with and that people have someone to hold their hand when they die. That is what we are called to do and it is the love of Christ. It is relationships.

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.