There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

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

For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

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