The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.