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

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

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

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.