The True Atheist Is The One Who

Biological Family Is Too Small Of A Vision. Patriotism Is Far Too Myopic. A Love For Our Own Relatives And A Love For The People Of Our Own Country Are Not Bad Things, But Our Love Does Not Stop At The Border.

We Have To Use Our Discontentment To Engage Rather Than Disengage - Our Hope Has To Be More Powerful Than Our Cynicism.

If Every Christian Family Brought In A Child Who Needed A Family We Would Put The Foster Care System Out Of Business.

There Are Congregations On Nearly Every Corner. I'm Not Sure We Need More Churches. What We Need Is A Church. I Say One Church Is Better Than Fifty. I Have Tried To Remove The Plural Form Churches From My Vocabulary, Training Myself To Think Of The Church As Christ Did, And As The Early Christians Did. The Metaphors For Her Are Always Singular - A Body, A Bride. I Heard One Gospel Preacher Say It Like This, As He Really Wound Up And Broke A Sweat: "we've Got To Unite Ourselves As One Body. Because Jesus Is Coming Back, And He's Coming Back For A Bride Not A Harem.

There Is An Innocence Or Purity That We See In Renewals And In The Mennonite Church And A New An Invigorated Civil Rights Movement.