Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

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.

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

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

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.

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

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.