If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

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.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.