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

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've thrown out their faith, but it's because of their faith they can't reconcile the death penalty with Jesus and their commitment to Jesus.

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

Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it is not just how many units of housing we create or how good our health care system is, it is that people have someone to eat dinner with and that people have someone to hold their hand when they die. That is what we are called to do and it is the love of Christ. It is relationships.

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.