I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

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.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who, through their lifestyle, were challenging the patterns of materialism and militarism and it affected the Christianity of their age.

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.