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.

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.