God doesn't want to change the world without you.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

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.

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.

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

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.