The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.

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

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

So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.

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

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.