With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.

If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.