It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.

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.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

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

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.