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 need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

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

I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.

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

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).