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 think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.

Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.

We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.

When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.

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