Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.

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

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

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

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.

It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.