God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.

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

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

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.

There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.