The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And 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.

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

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.