When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.

I found that the death penalty  -  and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person  -  but what I think drew me to the death penalty is because it raises some very deep, fundamental questions like: Is anybody beyond redemption?

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.