“Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.”
“Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.”
“Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.”
“Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.”
“A budget is a moral document.”
“The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.”
“Faith reminds us that change is always possible.”