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

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.

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.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.