The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

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

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the church as Christ did, and as the early Christians did. The metaphors for her are always singular - a body, a bride. I heard one gospel preacher say it like this, as he really wound up and broke a sweat: "We've got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back, and he's coming back for a bride not a harem.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.