The More I Get To Know Jesus,

The Work Of Community, Love, Reconciliation, Restoration Is The Work We Cannot Leave Up To Politicians. This Is The Work We Are All Called To Do.

Let's Keep Refusing To Accept The World As It Is And Insisting On Building The World We Dream Of. Don't Let The Haters Have The Last Word.

Jesus Is Challenging That When Addressing "who Is Your Neighbor" And He Has A Lot Of Hard Things To Say About Family, "unless You Hate Your Own Family You Are Not Going To Be A Disciple." He Is Challenging The Limits Of Our Compassion And Our Love As If Someone's Kid Suffers It Should Be As Devastating To Us As If It Were Our Own Kid. That Is What The Early Church Said.

Someday War And Poverty Will Be Crazy And We Will Wonder How The World Allowed Such Things To Exist.

This Is The Company We Keep When It Comes To The Death Penalty: China, The Number One Executing Country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Those Are The Top 4, And Number 5 Is The Us. And Those Are Not Countries That Are Known As Champions For Human Rights, You Know.