What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the racial injustice that continues to haunt our country in a way that you can't ignore. There is power in injustice becoming personal.

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

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who, through their lifestyle, were challenging the patterns of materialism and militarism and it affected the Christianity of their age.

We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is a time we are seeing some trending away from the things that were cluttering our faith.