The More I Get To Know Jesus,

We Can Tell The World That There Is Life After Death, But The World Really Seems To Be Wondering If There Is Life Before Death.

There Are Some Christians Who Totally Disengage From Politics And Set Their Minds On Heaven So Much That Their Faith Is So Heavenly Minded That It Is No Earthly Good.

I Moved To Philadelphia To Go To School At Eastern Partly Because I Wanted To Study The Bible And I Also Went To Study Sociology. I Like How Karl Barth Said We Have To Read The Bible In One Hand And The Newspaper In The Other So That Our Faith Doesn't Just Become A Ticket Into Heaven And A License To Ignore The World Around Us.

Philadelphia Caught My Attention In 1995 When A Group Of Homeless Families Were Living In An Abandoned Cathedral. Even From The Beginning They Connected Theology With What They Were Doing. They Put A Banner On The Front Of The Cathedral That Said, "how Can We Worship A Homeless Man On Sunday And Ignore One On Monday."

I Engage With Local Politics Because It Affects People I Love. And I Engage In National Politics Because It Affects People I Love.