As brother Cornel West says, “Justice is what love looks like in public.” Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart – only God can do that.
Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.
I don’t know if you’ve read the Bible, and if you haven’t, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.
The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.
The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.
It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.
We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live – with 5% of the world using half the world’s resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.
The church is like Noah’s ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you’ll drown.
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater – making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, “God hates fags” and all sorts of sick things – and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like.
Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.
We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage – our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.
Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.
The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God’s image in the face of their neighbour.
Discontentment is a gift. It’s the stuff that changes the world.
And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.