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Maybe We Are A Little Crazy. After All, We Believe In Things We Don't See. The Scriptures Say That Faith Is "being Sure Of What We Hope For And Certain Of What We Do Not See" (heb. 11:1). We Believe Poverty Can End Even Though It Is All Around Us. We Believe In Peace Even Though We Hear Only Rumours Of Wars. And Since We Are People Of Expectation, We Are So Convinced That Another World Is Coming That We Start Living As If It Were Already Here.

Jesus Taught Us A Prayer Of Community And Reconciliation, Belonging To A New People Who Have Left The Land Of 'me'.

We Need To Be Politically Engaged, But Peculiar In How We Engage. Jesus And The Early Christians Had A Marvelous Political Imagination. They Turned All The Presumptions And Ideas Of Power And Blessing Upside Down.

Our Churches Should Attract The People Jesus Attracted And Frustrate The People Jesus Frustrated.

We Might Hope To Change The World Through Better, Bigger Programs To Stop Global Warming, But Global Warming Will Not End Unless People Become Less Greedy And Less Wasteful, Gaining A Fresh Vision Of What It Means To Love Our Global Neighbor.