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.

There are some  -  called 'death fatigue'  -  people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.

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.

We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.

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

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.