When We Realize That We Are Both

I Think A Lot Of People View The Death Penalty As A Debate Class Or Something. The Cost And What's At Stake Is Really, Really A Big Deal.

Too Often We Just Do What Makes Sense To Us And Ask God To Bless It.

I Moved To Philadelphia To Go To School At Eastern Partly Because I Wanted To Study The Bible And I Also Went To Study Sociology. I Like How Karl Barth Said We Have To Read The Bible In One Hand And The Newspaper In The Other So That Our Faith Doesn't Just Become A Ticket Into Heaven And A License To Ignore The World Around Us.

You Can't Really Learn God's Hope Like You Learn The Logic Of An Argument Or The Details Of A Story. It's More Like Learning To Belly Laugh. You Catch Hope From Someone Who Has It Down In Their Gut.

It's Unilaterally True That It Costs More To Maintain The Death Penalty Than The Alternatives To It, And We Can Leverage More Resources To Victims Families. We Can Do All Sorts Of Creative Ways Of Healing The Pain That People Have Done By Channeling The Energy And Resources To Other More Redemptive Forms Of Justice.