My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.
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. "
We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community.
We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.
Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.
I'm always ready to step up and take that shot.
We’re not going to allow gay people to adopt children, that’s against nature, it’s against nature’s God.
There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.