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 a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

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

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.