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We're Remembering Both The Good And The Bad In Our History Together In This World. This Isn't An Attempt To Make People Feel Bad Every Morning And To Force Them To Go Stick Their Fingers In A Wall Socket. We Chose These Things We Included As A Way To Point People Toward The Possibility Of Transformation Even While Remembering The Great Pain We Have Experienced As Humanity.

I Think In The End, God's Justice Is Redemptive, It's Restorative, It's About Giving Life, Not Taking Life.

To All My Nonbelieving, Sort-of-believing, And Used-to-be-believing Friends: I Feel Like I Should Begin With A Confession. I Am Sorry That So Often The Biggest Obstacle To God Has Been Christians.

The Death Penalty Has Succeeded In America, Not In Spite Of Christians, But Because Of Us. The Bible Belt Is The Death Belt. Wherever Christians Are Most Concentrated Is Where Executions Are Happening, And That's Deeply Troubling To Me.

What Is The Point In Calling Anything God If It Does Not Also Hold Sway In Every Part Of One's Life--especially One's Politics?