The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.