Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

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

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing the poorest of the poor. Where actually one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed is how many resources they have to defend themselves.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.