We see God all the time here. People only hear bad things about our neighborhood. Kensington is known as the badlands. I always say you have to be careful when you call a place the badlands because that is exactly what they said about Nazareth. Nothing good can come from there. I think we see God in the margins.

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

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

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