There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.

I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice  -  it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives  -  there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.

You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

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

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.