When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

There's something beautiful about that Scripture that says, "Your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). We need each other. There is power when the old and young dream together.

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing the poorest of the poor. Where actually one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed is how many resources they have to defend themselves.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.