The Christian Century

“Food charity is a sweet siren song. It is not a sustainable track toward the Beloved Community.”

“A lot of people want to talk about the big questions; they just don’t know how to get started.”

“There’s a fire that cannot be extinguished except by justice.”

“Life is built, and then it stops, and then Christ reaches in and brings it forward again.”

“We have remade our nation before and we can do it again.”

“These women are a puzzle hidden in plain sight.”

“It's the nature of the gospel to upend settled views.”

“What saves us is learning how to love, even to the point of death.”

“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”

“It comes down to human solidarity. Another name for solidarity is love.”

“If we don’t understand the Judaism of Jesus’ time, how can we understand him and his message?”

“It’s not that Southerners don’t get racial issues. We just don’t get them right.”

“My novel is just one small part of a conversation that can’t be silenced.”

“When I was nine or ten, I decided I needed to read the King James Bible.”