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The Best Critique Of What Is Wrong Is The Practice Of Something Better. So Let's Stop Complaining About The Church We've Experienced And Work On Becoming The Church We Dream Of.

There Is Extreme Poverty In Appalachia, Where I Was, And Increasingly Poverty Is Not Just An Urban Thing.

Philadelphia Caught My Attention In 1995 When A Group Of Homeless Families Were Living In An Abandoned Cathedral. Even From The Beginning They Connected Theology With What They Were Doing. They Put A Banner On The Front Of The Cathedral That Said, "how Can We Worship A Homeless Man On Sunday And Ignore One On Monday."

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?

It's Impossible To Separate Our Contemporary Practice Of The Death Penalty From Our History Around Race And Slavery, And Specifically, Lynching. Where Lynchings Were Happening 100 Years Ago Is Where Executions Are Happening Today. And That's A Haunting And Eerie Thing.