Tony Campolo and I both speak a lot, and we began to notice that there were some crowds of old folks that desperately needed some youthful energy, and there were other crowds of young folks that desperately needed some aged wisdom.

Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.