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There Are Financial Bankruptcies In Many Parts Of The Church. No Question About That. But We See The Possibility Of Reimagining And Revitalizing The Church.

But As I Pursued That Dream Of Upward Mobility Preparing For College, Things Just Didn't Fit Together. As I Read Scriptures About How The Last Will Be First, I Started Wondering Why I Was Working So Hard To Be First.

Mother Theresa Always Said, "calcuttas Are Everywhere If Only We Have Eyes To See. Find Your Calcutta."

The Death Penalty Has Succeeded In America, Not In Spite Of Christians, But Because Of Us. The Bible Belt Is The Death Belt. Wherever Christians Are Most Concentrated Is Where Executions Are Happening, And That's Deeply Troubling To Me.

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.