The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don't do that well, so why would we trust them with the power over life and death? Do we really believe the system is that perfect that it won't make any mistakes? You can't reverse these mistakes.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

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.