Cross Purposes

“In faith we press on in our journey through wilderness and hostile terrain, through the chaos and brokenness of human history.”

“When we look at each other with pure hearts, we see each other as we truly are, in all our humanity; we see each other with generosity, compassion, and love.”

“We have done the very opposite of what Jesus told us was the summary of all the law and the prophets: Love God with all that you are, and Love your neighbor as yourself. We too often forget that we can’t be loving God if we don’t also love our neighbor.”

“I believe in a God who constantly calls me to ask myself ‘justice for whom?’ and ‘justice for what?’”

“Focusing on what it really means to be a child of God—it’s like a wedding: a cause for joy, for celebration. Like a wedding, it is a new beginning.”

“Our faith is more profoundly about our understanding of how we are to be human beings living in the world, and our understanding of what it means to be human, period.”

“God becomes human in Jesus Christ, in other words, to show us the greatest possibilities of our own humanity.”

“That’s the worst thing about envy—it blinds us to the reality, to the necessity of God’s grace.”

“God asks us to be a people of compassion and forgiveness, to make it a habit of our nature.”

“Our sacred meal leads us to tell a new story of justice and compassion, and leave behind the old stories of cruelty and caste.”