I Think In The End,

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.

There Is A Movement Bubbling Up That Goes Beyond Cynicism And Celebrates A New Way Of Living, A Generation That Stops Complaining About The Church It Sees And Becomes The Church It Dreams Of.

A Pastor Friend Of Mine Said, "our Problem Is That We No Longer Have Martyrs. We Only Have Celebrities.

If We Believe Terrorists Are Past Redemption, We Should Just Rip Up Like 1/2 The New Testament Because It Was Written By One.

There's An Understanding Of Common Prayer That I Think We're Seeing Grow, More And More. When I Travel, I Hear From People Who Are Deeply Touched That Our Common Prayer Takes Time To Remember Some Of The Terrible Tragedies That Have Happened Around The World.