Faith Is Believing In The Impossible Because

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.

I Am Sorry That So Often The Biggest Obstacle To God Has Been Christians. Christians Who Have Had So Much To Say With Our Mouths And So Little To Show With Our Lives. I Am Sorry That So Often We Have Forgotten The Christ Of Our Christianity.

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.

Sometimes People Call Folks Here At The Simple Way Saints. Usually They Either Want To Applaud Our Lives And Live Vicariously Through Us, Or They Want To Write Us Off As Superhuman And Create A Safe Distance. One Of My Favorite Quotes, Written On My Wall Here In Bold Black Marker, Is From Dorothy Day: "don't Call Us Saints; We Don't Want To Be Dismissed That Easily

...i Believe In A God Of Scandalous Grace. I Have Pledged Allegiance To A King Who Loved Evildoers So Much He Died For Them, Teaching Us That There Is Something Worth Dying For But Nothing Worth Killing For.