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

I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.

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 Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.