That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the racial injustice that continues to haunt our country in a way that you can't ignore. There is power in injustice becoming personal.

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.

A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.