But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.