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

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.

Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.

I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.