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.

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

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

I believe you know Jesus said "a doctor doesn't come to the healthy, but the sick, and it's not the righteous but the sinners that I've come for," so I think that that's the scandal of God's love and grace that no one is beyond redemption, and we can see that all through scripture, you know.

There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.

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

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.