It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to college and fell in love with this city, and particularly, my neighborhood on the north side of Philadelphia.

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

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?