The Question Becomes Not Just How To

Only Jesus Would Be Crazy Enough To Suggest That If You Want To Become The Greatest, You Should Become The Least. Only Jesus Would Declare God's Blessing On The Poor Rather Than On The Rich And Would Insist That It's Not Enough To Just Love Your Friends. I Just Began To Wonder If Anybody Still Believed Jesus Meant Those Things He Said.

There Is Extreme Poverty In Appalachia, Where I Was, And Increasingly Poverty Is Not Just An Urban Thing.

Love Has No Limits. Compassion Has No Party. It Is The Responsibility Of Every Human Being And Every Institution To End Poverty And To Interrupt Injustice.

It's Impossible To Separate Our Contemporary Practice Of The Death Penalty From Our History Around Race And Slavery, And Specifically, Lynching. Where Lynchings Were Happening 100 Years Ago Is Where Executions Are Happening Today. And That's A Haunting And Eerie Thing.

Look Through The Prayer Books. You'll See Lots Of Dates. You'll See Names Of Native Americans Remembered. This Was An Open-sourcing Project Among So Many People.