If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
02298 – Want Peace?
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02293 – All Are Welcome; We All Belong
We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red,...
02292 – Is the World Just for Human Beings?
It is a kind of theological folly to suppose that God has made the entire world just for human beings; or to suppose that God is interested in only one of the millions of species that inhabit God's good earth.
02290 – Our Radical, Revolutionary, Subversive Bible
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
02289 – How Our Maturity will be Judged
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
02288 – Differences? We Need Each Other
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
02287 – Good News to the Hungry: Bread
I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry...
02286 – Diversity Among God’s People
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among...
02153 – This Award is for You
[Acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize:] This award is for mothers, who sit at railway stations to try to eke out an existence, selling potatoes, selling mealies, selling produce. This award is for you, fathers, sitting in a single-sex hostel,...
01922 – Seeing the Light
Hope is being able to see the light despite the darkness.