A Pastor Friend Of Mine

We're Not Church Planters. We Are Community Planters And, As We Work In Our Communities, We Join Local Churches.

I'm A Tennessee Boy. I Grew Up In East Tennessee Most Of My Life, Then Came Up To Philly To Go To College And Fell In Love With This City, And Particularly, My Neighborhood On The North Side Of Philadelphia.

The Monastic Folks Have The Spirit Of Being In The World But Not Of The World, Sort Of Peculiar People Who Have Gone To The Desert To Live On The Margins Of The Empire.

Whenever Folks Say Radical Christianity Is "a Phase" Of Youth, I Tell Them They Need To Meet Our 80-year-old Nun Or My Friend Tony Campolo.

For Even If The Whole World Believed In Resurrection, Little Would Change Until We Began To Practice It. We Can Believe In Cpr, But People Will Remain Dead Until Someone Breathes New Life Into Them. And We Can Tell The World That There Is Life After Death, But The World Really Seems To Be Wondering If There Is Life Before Death.