I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.

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

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.

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.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.