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

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.

We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

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.

[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.