It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

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.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.