Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.

If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

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.

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.