I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

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

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.

When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.